All posts tagged "American History"
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
November 27, 2023Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
November 26, 2023Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
November 24, 2023They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Curses on You, White Men!
November 23, 2023The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
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The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
November 21, 2023But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
November 18, 2023By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
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American-Made by Nick Taylor
November 18, 2023Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Four Shipwrecked Castaways Cross Sixteenth Century America
November 14, 2023"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...
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Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
November 7, 2023As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
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Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
October 22, 2023What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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