Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
June 15, 2025For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
May 31, 2025The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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...
Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher
May 12, 2025Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (“tarp”), a man his men call...
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
May 3, 2025Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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...




