All posts tagged "civil war"
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Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2022The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 26, 2022As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
November 8, 2021A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
November 7, 2021On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
November 2, 2021The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
October 23, 2021David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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Books
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
September 14, 2021Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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African American
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
October 6, 2020The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
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History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
September 8, 2020This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
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Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
September 3, 2020These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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