All posts tagged "civil war"
Books
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
April 21, 2024The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
March 25, 2024This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
March 23, 2024These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Art
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
February 22, 2024The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
February 10, 2024In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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