All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Biography
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
September 16, 2020Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
September 8, 2020This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
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Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
September 3, 2020These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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History
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
September 1, 2020J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
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Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
August 11, 2020Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
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Art
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
August 3, 2020The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
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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
July 21, 2020In 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
July 13, 2020A 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
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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