All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
March 23, 2024These 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
March 21, 2024J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
February 29, 2024Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Art
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,...
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...
Biography
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...
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...
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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