All posts tagged "American History"
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Books
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
April 18, 2024It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
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History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
March 23, 2024These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
March 5, 2024Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
March 4, 2024Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
February 29, 2024For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
February 10, 2024In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
January 7, 2024James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
January 3, 2024Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
January 1, 2024The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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