All posts tagged "American History"
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Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 7, 2026The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
December 14, 2025Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
December 10, 2025You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
December 8, 2025Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
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An Interview With Scott Zesch
December 1, 2025"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
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An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
November 30, 2025"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...
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