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Mark Lardas,Jeff Minick,Barbara Danza,Dustin Bass 6/25/2026|Updated: 6/25/2026 History This week, we feature the enchanting life story of the creator of a popular children’s book character and an analysis of primary texts illuminating the Declaration of Independence.
Allan Gallay’s comprehensively researched but above all profound biography of Walter Ralegh makes it unlikely another will be published anytime soon, if ever. It is ambitious in scope and if it perhaps over-reaches in attributing to Ralegh the guiding spirit of British imperialism in America, it does not do so by much. It helps that his subject was the epitome of the Renaissance man, both a courtier of refined sensibility and an adventurer of bold and boundless ambition.
For all its faults C.E Hamshere’s account of Francis Drake’s 16th-century circumnavigation, published in History Today in 1967, applies a historical imagination lacking in more recent studies, argues Hugh Bicheno. It would not have occurred to anyone 46 years ago to sit in moral judgement on the doings of people who lived 400 years before them, let alone apologise on their behalf.
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