All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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After Image
Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
October 27, 2024As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
October 24, 2024As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
October 21, 2024Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
October 17, 2024The hard truth, impossible to dodge, is that this is not Tolstoy’s world. It is more...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
August 24, 2024Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
August 9, 2024Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
August 7, 2024David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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