How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
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Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
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Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
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