All posts tagged "American History"
History
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
January 21, 2025Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
January 21, 2025Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
January 13, 2025Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
Business
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
January 12, 2025Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
Non-Fiction Reviews
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
January 10, 2025Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
January 9, 2025In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Biography
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Books
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
Photography
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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