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Book Reviews & Essays
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Review of: The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic, by Ryan L. Cole
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Review of: The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier, by Megan Kate Nelson
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Review of: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Review of: Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos, by Candace Rondeaux
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Review of: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami
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May 01, 2025 |
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Review of: Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by Manisha Sinha
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Review of: Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Review of: The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, by Scott Miller
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Review of: American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873, by Alan Taylor
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Review of: Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life, by Elizabeth D. Leonard
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Review of: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Review of: Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, by Harold Holzer
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May 16, 2024 |
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Review of: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw
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May 06, 2024 |
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Review of: On Tyranny (Graphic Edition): Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder, Illustrated by Nora Krug
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Review of: The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War, by Michael Gorra
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Review of: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Review of: Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, by Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Review of: The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, by Charles Freeman
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Review of: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Review of: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, by Scott Eyman
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Review of: The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Review of: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, by C.W. Goodyear
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Review of: Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Review of: The Making of the African Queen: Or How I went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind, by Katharine Hepburn
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Review of: The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Review of: Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder
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May 21, 2023 |
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Review of: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin
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May 11, 2023 |
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Review of: Wrestling With His Angel:The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856, & All the Powers of Earth:The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860,by Sidney Blumenthal
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Review of: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Review of: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI, by Judy Gumbo
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Review of: The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment, by Charles Freeman
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Review of: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Review of: The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Review of: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Review of: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in the World Transformed, by Andrew Bacevich
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Review of: 1957: The Year That Launched the American Future, by Eric Burns
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Review of: Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Review of: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849, by Sidney Blumenthal
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Review of: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs
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May 31, 2022 |
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Review of: Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life, by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Review of The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by William J. Cooper
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Review of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, by Colin Edward Woodward
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Review of Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Review of Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by David Whitehouse
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Review of Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human, by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Review of George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, by David O. Stewart
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Review of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, by Alan Taylor
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Review of Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Review of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, by Robert Dallek
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Review of Flight to Freedom, by Ellen Oppenheimer
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Review of Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia, by Stephan Orth
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Review of Tim & Tigon, by Tim Cope
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Review of The Caucasus: An Introduction, by Thomas De Waal
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Review of A History of Crete, by Chris Moorey
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May 19, 2021 |
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Review of The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas T. Allsen
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May 12, 2021 |
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Review of A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age, by Daniel Schönpflug
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May 02, 2021 |
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Review of A Tidewater Morning, by William Styron
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Review of Africa: A Biography of the Continent, by John Reader
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Review of Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, by S.C. Gwynne
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Review of Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Review of The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations, by Lucy Shipley
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Review of Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Review of The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700, by Charles Freeman
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Review of Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, by Karina Longworth
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Review of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Review of Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Review of Imagine John Yoko, by John & Yoko Lennon
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May 01, 2020 |
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Review of At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl, edited by Inge Jens
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Review of The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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Review of Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Review of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Review of: "The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America," by Stephen W. Campbell
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Review of: "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps," by Amy Murrell Taylor
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Review of: "The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" by Patrick H. Breen
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Review of: "Hero of the Empire" by Candice Millard
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "The War for the Common Soldier" by Peter S. Carmichael
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "The Thin Light of Freedom" by Edward L. Ayers
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "Grant" by Ron Chernow
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "Presidents of War" by Michael Beschloss
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "Impeached" by David O. Stewart
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Review of: "Dinner in Camelot" by Joseph A. Esposito
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Oct 06, 2019 |