Running a business was supposed to give you freedom. Instead, most days disappear into a blur of decisions, fires to put out, and a to-do list that never gets shorter.You are managing everything, coordinating the team, piecing together advice from every direction, and somehow the strategic thinking that would actually move things forward keeps getting pushed to "later."John Vance has lived this. He launched his firm at twenty-eight...

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to histor...

On a spring morning in 1861, two men from the same border-state soil — one raised in a log cabin, the other on a cotton plantation — took command of a nation tearing itself apart. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had almost nothing in common except the size of the burden now on their shoulders.Lincoln vs Davis tells the Civil War as it was actually fought: not as one story, but as two. Chapter by chapter, this parallel history moves between the White House and the Confe...

On a spring morning in 1861, two men from the same border-state soil — one raised in a log cabin, the other on a cotton plantation — took command of a nation tearing itself apart. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had almost nothing in common except the size of the burden now on their shoulders.Lincoln vs Davis tells the Civil War as it was actually fought: not as one story, but as two. Chapter by chapter, this parallel history moves between the White House and the Confe...

On a spring morning in 1861, two men from the same border-state soil — one raised in a log cabin, the other on a cotton plantation — took command of a nation tearing itself apart. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had almost nothing in common except the size of the burden now on their shoulders.Lincoln vs Davis tells the Civil War as it was actually fought: not as one story, but as two. Chapter by chapter, this parallel history moves between the White House and the Confe...