All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
November 6, 2026This 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
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
November 1, 2026J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
October 10, 2026Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
October 1, 2026The 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
September 18, 2026In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
September 10, 2026A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Photography
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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