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Freedom in Fiction: The Leopard
Last weekend, while the Irish were celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day, Italians celebrated National Unification Day, memorialized by Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard. This “great book,” often...
View ArticleFreedom in Film: Gettysburg (1993)
“Up, men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!” ―Major General George Pickett In Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler grimly tells Scarlett O’Hara that a looming...
View ArticleFreedom in Film: Gettysburg (1993)
April 9, 2015 is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Court House. The battle resulted in General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and signaled the end of the...
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