Preston Jones is a historian and writer who contributed essays and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard in 1998 and 1999. His pieces for the magazine explored aspects of North American life and culture, including Canadian affairs. He has been associated with academic work in history, particularly relating to Canada and the American West.
Maybe you didn't know that "what we would call 'S and M' was highly popular among the Victorians." In that case, you should read A. N. Wilson, "award-winning novelist, biographer, and journalist," who in his new volume God's Funeral, devotes some twenty-five pages to musing about the life, work,…
No one in New York or Washington or even Boston expects to find much happening out along the United States' northern border -- and most of the people who live there seem to think that's just fine. The northlanders -- Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher explains in his North Country: A Personal…
There was a moment in the nineteenth century when it seemed possible that the Yankees might, after defeating the Confederate South, try to annex British North America. So the separate colonies of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and "Canada" (roughly present day Quebec and Ontario)…