All posts tagged "American History"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
December 28, 2023It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Israel
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
December 22, 2023The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
December 20, 2023This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
December 10, 2023“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Photography
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
December 8, 2023Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
December 6, 2023It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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Vietnam
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
December 3, 2023Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
December 1, 2023Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
November 29, 2023Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
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