Tom Rider's Reviews

The author argues that religious motives were an important, at times even a dominant, motive for migration prior to the Civil War and those developments within Protestantism were a significant factor in the settlement of North America. This emphasis on its religious motives represents a swing in the historiography of the westward expansion of Europeans; [...]

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Gary Fine has descried how the Chicago office of the National Weather Bureau makes weather forecasts. The NWB is a division of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, and its Chicago office is one of 122 offices around the country. He briefly visited two other NWB offices and also the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, [...]

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Edith Grossman is a professional translator of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among other Latin American novelists and poets. She has recently translated Don Quixote and some years ago an anthology of poets of the Spanish Renaissance. Grossman has interesting things to say about translation and about her profession. 
We Americans read relatively few [...]

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Frederic Morton’s account of the events leading up to the First World War has no major surprises. The story, as he tells it, should be familiar to anyone who has had a course in the twentieth-century European history. But he tells an interesting story. He convinces you that the war was, in a major way, [...]

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