All posts tagged "American History"
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History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
May 24, 2020Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Biography
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
May 22, 2020It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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History
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
May 21, 2020Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
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History
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
May 20, 2020Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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Archeology
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
May 18, 2020Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
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Biography
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
May 17, 2020Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
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History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
May 16, 2020Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
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History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
May 15, 2020They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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History
Curses on You, White Men!
May 14, 2020The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
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History
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
May 13, 2020But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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