All posts tagged "American History"
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History
An Interview With Scott Zesch
October 9, 2021"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
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History
An Interview With Chilton Williamson
October 9, 2021"I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade,...
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History
An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
October 9, 2021"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...
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Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
August 25, 2021George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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African American
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
October 6, 2020The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
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Books
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
October 3, 2020It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
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Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
September 3, 2020These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
August 16, 2020Nevertheless, 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
August 15, 2020Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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History
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
August 10, 2020For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...