All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
November 9, 2021Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
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Biography
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
October 24, 2021Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
October 23, 2021David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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History
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
October 19, 2021No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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History
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
October 18, 2021Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
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History
An Interview With Scott Zesch
October 9, 2021"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
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Art
Art for a New Gilded Age
October 4, 2021Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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Art
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
September 21, 2021Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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Books
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
September 14, 2021Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
September 11, 2021But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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