All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 24, 2022In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Biography
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
September 16, 2022A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 12, 2022The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 9, 2022Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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History
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 18, 2022Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 18, 2022Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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History
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 11, 2022Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 26, 2022Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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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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