All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
June 14, 2020The “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
June 12, 2020Never 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
May 24, 2020Tramps 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
May 24, 2020Lincoln 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
May 20, 2020Had 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
May 11, 2020Nature 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
May 6, 2020Counts 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
April 28, 2020For 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
April 28, 2020What 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
April 26, 2020Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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