All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
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Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 18, 2026Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
July 2, 2026Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
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The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 18, 2026In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
June 9, 2026As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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