All posts tagged "American History"
Non-Fiction Reviews
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 10, 2026Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
Biography
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 10, 2026In 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
May 10, 2026Study 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
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
Native American
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 7, 2026The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
December 14, 2025Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
December 10, 2025You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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