All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
July 9, 2025J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
Art & Design
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
June 15, 2025Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
June 8, 2025The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
May 26, 2025In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Great Britain
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
April 12, 2025The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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