All posts tagged "American History"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
December 8, 2025Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Scott Zesch
December 1, 2025"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
November 30, 2025"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...
History
An Interview With Chilton Williamson
November 29, 2025"I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Books
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Books
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
June 21, 2025Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
June 21, 2025Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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