All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
February 22, 2024The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
February 10, 2024In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
February 2, 2024A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
January 1, 2024The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
December 8, 2023Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Military
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
December 1, 2023Had 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
November 18, 2023Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
November 12, 2023Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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