All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Books
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
July 6, 2023Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Movies
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
July 3, 2023The hard truth, impossible to dodge, is that this is not Tolstoy’s world. It is more...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
May 3, 2023Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
April 18, 2023Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
April 17, 2023David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
April 13, 2023No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
April 13, 2023Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Scott Zesch
April 4, 2023"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
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