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Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 17, 2022In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 16, 2022Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
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Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 21, 2022Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 28, 2022As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 8, 2022The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2022The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...