These powerful quotes from historical fiction books prove that the past is never truly gone—and that its lessons still shape ...

Here (again from Walzer, who quotes from the oral history “The Seventh Day ... blame, revenge, even murder. Love and war are forms of life; they are rule-governed. Give a bunch of human beings a bat ...

“Love is a kind of war, and no assignment for cowards.” Thus spoke Ovid in c. 2 B.C.E. with great pertinence to love and war in the Middle Ages and to the endeavors of this class. I propose to work ...