All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
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African American
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
August 24, 2020Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
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Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
August 16, 2020Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
August 15, 2020Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
July 24, 2020Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
June 14, 2020The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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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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Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
May 18, 2020Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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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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France
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
May 8, 2020In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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