Booth

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. His writing has appeared in We’re History, The History New Network, and The Washington Post.

Bennett Parten

American Revanchism: On Karen Joy Fowler’s “Booth”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. His writing has appeared in We’re History, The History New Network, and The Washington Post.