Lincoln

US History

The Fire Bringer Left on the Rock: Woodrow Wilson and the Promethean Tragedy of American Internationalism

The aspect of the Prometheus myth that tends to receive the least attention in casual reference to it is also the aspect that matters most. We remember Prometheus as the rebel, the martyr, the figure chained to the rock while the eagle comes each day to devour his liver, and

Lincoln

The Son Who Could Not Come Home: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Burden of the Unfinished Epic

The Odyssey gives us Telemachus young, uncertain, fatherless in every practical sense that matters. Odysseus is absent, the household is beset by suitors who have made themselves at home in a space that is not theirs, and the boy who would be heir must navigate a world in which his