Monthly Archives: June 2026

Lamanai: A White Paper on Its History and Its Place in the Maya World

Posted on June 22, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Lamanai, on the western shore of the New River Lagoon in the Orange Walk District of northern Belize, is among the most consequential archaeological sites in the Maya lowlands, chiefly because of one extraordinary fact: it was occupied, with … Continue reading →

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The Heap of Witness: Treaties, Boundaries, and the Land That Is the LORD’s

Posted on June 21, 2026 by nathanalbright

A sermon on the binding of oaths, the bounds of nations, and the difference between keeping a word and merely saying one. Brethren, there is a river in the south of this country called the Sarstoon, and along its banks … Continue reading →

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Streets So Lonely

Posted on June 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

When my mother and I were still on our way to Belize in Houston, we talked to someone who referred to Belize City as the armpit of Belize and commented on his preference for staying in a small town or … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts On The Art of Belize

Posted on June 19, 2026 by nathanalbright

Today my mother and I, while visiting Belize City, took a tour for a couple of hours or so. The first site was a place that we had planned to visit tomorrow afternoon before dinner, the area of the Belize … Continue reading →

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Belize Is A Second World Country

Posted on June 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper, the fourth in a series locating nations within the four-worlds model defined against the World Bank’s income tiers, argues that Belize is a second-world country. Under the operational definition adopted here — first world for high income, … Continue reading →

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The Sabbath They Keep and the Sabbath They Broke: Irony, Liability, and Religious Freedom in EEOC v. Hatch Trick, Inc.

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary In May 2026 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued an Austin-area Chick-fil-A franchisee, Hatch Trick, Inc., alleging that the operator fired a manager rather than continue accommodating her seventh-day Sabbath observance. The employee, Laurel Torode, is a … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon III — On the Understudied Institutions of Union and Confederacy

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Part I. The Problem Stated: Where the Attention Has Gone The second prolegomenon ended by pointing past the proclamations and the speeches to the place where the test of an order’s strength was actually passed and failed—the concrete working of … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon II — On Civil War as the Ultimate Test of Institutions, and the Leader’s Burden of Sustaining a Cause

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Part I. The Problem Stated: When the Cushions Are Removed The first prolegomenon ended by pointing beneath the surface of the war—beneath the campaigns and the commanders that have drawn the most attention—to the conditions that decided what the surface … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon I — On the Inexhaustibility of a Familiar Subject

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Part I. The Problem Stated: The Paradox of the Crowded Shelf Stand before any well-stocked shelf of American history and the Civil War will announce itself by sheer mass. The titles run to the thousands and then the tens of … Continue reading →

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Davis as Commander-in-Chief: A Synthesis of the Dyadic Studies

Posted on June 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This concluding paper draws together the nine studies that precede it into a comparative assessment of Jefferson Davis as commander-in-chief. It proceeds by testing which patterns recur across the dyadic case studies and which were specific to particular relationships, … Continue reading →

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