Continuing Education

The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchmann is a key work examining the question of what prompted the U.S. to enter World War I. This short analysis and criticism, part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with a general, but thoughtful, review of Barbara Tuchmann's research into how Woodrow Wilson, despite his long held stand on non-intervention, managed a shift to war.

Carl Gustavson's classic "A Preface to History" provides a fruitful source through which to examine a normative approach to history, debate the nature of objectivity in historical discussion, investigate historical-mindedness as a practical tool and analyze the basic forces that drive history. This paper presents shortcomings in Gustavson's approach to history.

This particular short analysis of one of Guy De Maupassant's most famous short stories is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

In 1932 Nathalie Sarraute wrote her first book, Tropisms, a series of brief sketches and memories that set the tone for her entire oeuvre. This particular literary analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of Sarraute's challenging early fiction and literary style.

James Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. This particular literary analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of Agee's literary style and powerful use of language.

The letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales depict the life and general morale of the civilian population in Mississippi before, during and after the War between the States. Special attention is paid to research into the life and service of Dabney Minor Scales, who served as a second lieutenant on the Shenandoah, the most important and famous ship of the Confederate Navy.

“The Fiddling Contest” is a true old family story transcribed by Ellen Gray Taylor, who had heard the brave story of Mars Henry in the words of the ex-slave who told it to her and to so many other children. Rendered in the vernacular, this story depicts the great love shown within an extended family trying to ensure survival in the dark days after the War Between the States.

In 2009 an engraved 1935 Browning FN Hi-Power in perfectly preserved condition appeared for sale online. Purportedly a personal gift from Chiang Kai-shek, the gun had been carefully stored away until finally sold as part of an estate. This article looks into the mystery of the gun's provenance. How had this Browning passed from a once powerful Asian leader to an American soldier during WWII?

This particular short analysis of The Stranger by Albert Camus is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays

This particular short analysis of Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

This particular short analysis of "Alcestis" by Euripides is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

This particular short analysis of “Spring Snow” by Yukio Mishima is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

This particular short analysis of “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

This Child’s Outline of Greek and Roman Mythology is included in our Continuing Education Series to provide a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be reading Greek or Roman mythology for the first time. The outline collapses the complex group of mythological characters and interactions into a quick blow-by-blow of the main characters and interactions found in the myths.

This particular short analysis of Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.

This particular short essay on the causes of the American Revolution, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, provides readers with an argument that economic considerations primarily drove the colonists to revolution. Our Continuing Education Series helps to provide thoughtful consideration of important historical and literary questions.

This Child’s Outline of the Sovereigns of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom is included in our Continuing Education Series to provide a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be reading British royal history for the first time. Prepared in a simple and comprehensive way, it helps young readers and/or those without familiarity of the basic lines of royal succession.

This particular short essay on Artistic Meaning in the Heraclitean Universe, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the fundamental paradox in Heraclitus on the simultaneous validity of certain opposite values as applied to artistic creativity and tries to reach an conclusion on a specific question: Are artistically created objects meaningful in the Heraclitean Universe?

This essay on "Vision of a New Society in Plato and Aristotle," which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the distinct differences between an ideal society as presented by Plato and by Aristotle in their writings.

This particular short essay on P.A. Stolypin's Agrarian Reforms in Russia, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the improved condition of the peasantry that arose as a result of land reforms. While Stolypin's reforms freed the peasantry from the chains of virtual slavery, World War I cut short Russia's road to progress in this area.

This particular short essay on basic ideas in philosophy, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines general concepts required prior to reading philosophy. This introduction can be a useful study guide for young adults or anyone who may be tackling philosophical arguments for the first time.

This particular essay on the influences of the Tao on Chinese painting, poetry and music, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the concept of the Tao and how it has been the basis for creating and interpreting works of art in China. It will serve as a useful study guide for young adults or anyone who may be tackling Chinese philosophy and art for the first time.

This essay discusses the chapter “God and Religion” from Philosophy and Contemporary Issues by John Roy Burr and Milton Goldinger. From the chapter's inquiry into the existence of God, the paper addresses the construction of the debate including the scientific constraints of logic which fail to admit subjective experience and the inconsistency of the existence of evil and the existence of God.

Our Continuing Education Series hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, literary pieces, historical events and ideas. This particular short essay discusses the functional resemblance between ironic myth and romantic parody. Works discussed include Heart of Darkness, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and others.