Robert Nisbet’s Youth ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Bradley J. Birzer

Growing up in Maricopa, the young Robert Nisbet fell deeply in love with libraries.

Almost as soon as he learned to read—sitting on his mother’s lap as she read to him—the young man began to devour books voraciously, loving the literature of the Age of Coolidge…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/02/robert-nisbet-youth-bradley-birzer.html

“The Sphinx” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Edgar Allan Poe

During the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage on the banks of the Hudson.

Near the close of an exceedingly warm day, I was sitting, book in hand, at an open window.

Uplifting my eyes from the page, they fell upon the naked face of the hill, and upon an object—upon some living monster of hideous conformation, which very rapidly made its way from the summit to the bottom…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/05/the-sphinx-edgar-allan-poe.html

The Battle of Jumonville Glen: The French & Indian War Begins ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Craig Bruce Smith

While the Battle of Jumonville Glen may not be considered the start of the war from the British perspective, it resulted in an expanded colonial conflict engulfing the world in violence, which then began the rift between Britain and their colonists that set the stage for the American Revolution…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/05/battle-jumonville-glen-starts-french-indian-war-craig-bruce-smith.html