All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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History
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 20, 2022Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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Great Britain
Believers and Infidels
June 5, 2022For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
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Biography
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
June 3, 2022What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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History
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 29, 2022Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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History
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
May 27, 2022Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
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Biography
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 19, 2022Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Biography
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 17, 2022Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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Biography
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 17, 2022In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Books
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
May 4, 2022Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
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Asian American
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 28, 2022As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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