All posts tagged "American History"
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Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
March 18, 2025Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
History
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
March 12, 2025Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
March 10, 2025Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Archeology
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
March 7, 2025Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
March 5, 2025Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
March 1, 2025The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
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