Somewhere in 17th century Sweden, in a county untouched by the conflict dividing Europe, two army recruiters are taken aback.

The findings are troublesome because King Charles and Prince William “operate as commercial landlords” with a special ...

Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...