Diana Schaub

Apr 15, 2024 | modernagejournal.com | Diana Schaub

On his way home from a bout of campaigning on behalf of Zachary Taylor in 1848, Abraham Lincoln briefly stopped at Niagara Falls to behold the grandeur of the rushing water.

Jan 16, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Joseph Epstein |David Schaefer |Diana Schaub |Algis Valiunas

Theodor Mommsen’s fame during his lifetime was such that it earned the awe of even so skeptical an observer as Mark Twain. In one of his newsletters to America, Twain, while in Berlin, describes attending a student dinner when Mommsen arrived in the hall. Twain writes:Then there was an excited whisper at our table—“Mommsen!”—and the whole house rose. Rose and shouted and stamped and clapped, and banged the beer mugs….

Jul 31, 2023 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Diana Schaub |Scott Yenor |William Voegeli |Wilfred M. McClay

Who founded the United States? Although Americans give special accolades to a few indispensable individuals, we clearly have no single founder—no one like Lycurgus, who gave Sparta its laws and way of life. Instead, we have founders—plural—and often refer to the founding generation or the founding era.

May 31, 2023 | aei.org | Diana Schaub

Who founded the United States? Although Americans give special accolades to a few indispensable individuals, we clearly have no single founder—no one like Lycurgus, who gave Sparta its laws and way of life. Instead, we have founders—plural—and often refer to the founding generation or the founding era.

May 1, 2023 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Adam Candeub |Carl R. Trueman |Diana Schaub

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.