All posts tagged "American History"
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Biography
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 19, 2022Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Biography
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 17, 2022Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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Biography
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 17, 2022In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Biography
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 16, 2022Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
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Asian American
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 28, 2022As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Biography
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 8, 2022The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2022The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Biography
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
October 24, 2021Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
October 23, 2021David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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History
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
October 21, 2021You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
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