John Churchill Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman 1920-1997

10 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Excerpted from “Great Contemporaries, Pamela Harriman,” Hillsdale College Churchill Project. To read the full-strength original with more illustrations, click here. Better yet, join 60,000 readers of Hillsdale essays by the world’s best Churchill writers. by subscribing. You will receive regular notices (“Weekly Winstons”) of new articles as published. Visit https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/, scroll to bottom and fill in your email in the box entitled “Stay in touch with us.” Your email will remain a riddle wrapped a mystery inside an enigma.

Pamela: she got there on her own

In December 1941 Winston Churchill. disarming whatever critics he still had, told the U.S.…

Lehrman on Churchill and Lincoln

24 March 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, offers a compelling two-part comparison of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill at the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. (To read in entirety, start here.)

Mr. Lehrman is author of Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (2008) and Lincoln “by littles” (2013). Uniquely among the Lincoln scholars I’ve heard on Churchill, he has as fine a grasp of the English statesman as he does the American president. He tells me he regards each as the outstanding figure of his respective century. No argument there.

1. Lehrman on Preparation for Greatness

Excerpt: President Lincoln and Prime Minister Churchill found themselves challenged by wars of national survival.…

Chartwell and Churchill, 1955

1 March 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Chartwell, 1955— Here is one of the finest—as it is the most revealing—portraits of Churchill at Chartwell we can read, by the Oxford historian A.L. Rowse, who spent a memorable day at Churchill’s home.

It gives an insightful view of Churchill and Chartwell ten years after World War II, not without pathos and sadness, for even now he was beginning to reflect that he had “achieved a great deal, only to achieve nothing in the end”: a thought however inconceivable in his case, but worth pondering by us all. Read full article at Hillsdale College Churchill Project.…