All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 27, 2026As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
February 23, 2026Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Movies
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
February 19, 2026The hard truth, impossible to dodge, is that this is not Tolstoy’s world. It is more...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
December 29, 2025Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
December 14, 2025Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
December 8, 2025Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Scott Zesch
December 1, 2025"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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