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PODCAST Review of: The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean November 30, 2023
Review of: The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean November 30, 2023
PODCAST Review of: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, by C.W. Goodyear October 24, 2023
Review of: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, by C.W. Goodyear October 24, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat August 30, 2023
Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat August 30, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye August 20, 2023
Review of: Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye August 20, 2023
PODCAST 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 August 12, 2023
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 August 12, 2023
PODCAST Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin August 6, 2023
Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin August 6, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson July 29, 2023
Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson July 29, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton July 16, 2023
Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton July 16, 2023
PODCAST Review of: The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine July 5, 2023
Review of: The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine July 5, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder May 21, 2023
Review of: Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder May 21, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin May 11, 2023
Review of: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin May 11, 2023
PODCAST 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 April 15, 2023
Review of: Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856, and All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860, by Sidney Blumenthal April 15, 2023
PODCAST Review of: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini February 28, 2023
Review of: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini February 28, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI, by Judy Gumbo February 12, 2023
Review of: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI, by Judy Gumbo February 12, 2023
PODCAST 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 February 7, 2023
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 February 7, 2023
PODCAST Review of: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr January 24, 2023
Review of: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr January 24, 2023
PODCAST Review of: The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins January 18, 2023
Review of: The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins January 18, 2023
PODCAST Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy December 31, 2022
Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy December 31, 2022
PODCAST Review of: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy October 30, 2022
Review of: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy October 30, 2022
PODCAST Review of: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in the World Transformed, by Andrew Bacevich October 4, 2022
Review of: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in the World Transformed, by Andrew Bacevich October 4, 2022
PODCAST Review of: 1957: The Year That Launched the American Future, by Eric Burns September 15, 2022
Review of: 1957: The Year That Launched the American Future, by Eric Burns September 15, 2022
PODCAST Review of: Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax August 31, 2022
Review of: Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax August 31, 2022
PODCAST Review of: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849, by Sidney Blumenthal July 13, 2022
Review of: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849, by Sidney Blumenthal July 13, 2022
PODCAST Review of: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs May 31, 2022
Review of: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs May 31, 2022
PODCAST Review of: Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life, by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim April 27, 2022
Review of: Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life, by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim April 27, 2022
PODCAST Review of The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by William J. Cooper March 6, 2022
Review of: The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by William J. Cooper March 6, 2022
PODCAST Review of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, by Colin Edward Woodward February 27, 2022
Review of: Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, by Colin Edward Woodward February 27, 2022
PODCAST Review of Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick February 20, 2022
Review of: Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick February 20, 2022
PODCAST Review of Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by David Whitehouse February 5, 2022
Review of: Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by David Whitehouse February 5, 2022
PODCAST Review of Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human, by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier January 30, 2022
Review of: Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human, by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier January 30, 2022
Review of: George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, by David O. Stewart January 23, 2022
PODCAST Review of George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, by David O. Stewart January 23, 2022
PODCAST Review of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, by Alan Taylor December 11, 2021
Review of: American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, by Alan Taylor December 11, 2021
PODCAST Review of Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini November 13, 2021
Review of: Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini November 13, 2021
PODCAST Review of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, by Robert Dallek October 17, 2021
Review of: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, by Robert Dallek October 17, 2021
PODCAST Review of Flight to Freedom, by Ellen Oppenheimer August 27, 2021
Review of: Flight to Freedom, by Ellen Oppenheimer August 27, 2021
PODCAST Review of Behind Putin’s Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia, by Stephan Orth August 15, 2021
Review of: Behind Putin’s Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia, by Stephan Orth August 15, 2021
PODCAST Review of Tim & Tigon, by Tim Cope July 6, 2021
Review of: Tim & Tigon, by Tim Cope July 6, 2021
PODCAST Review of The Caucasus: An Introduction, by Thomas De Waal June 8, 2021
Review of: The Caucasus: An Introduction, by Thomas De Waal June 8, 2021
PODCAST Review of A History of Crete, by Chris Moorey May 19, 2021
Review of: A History of Crete, by Chris Moorey May 19, 2021
PODCAST Review of The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas T. Allsen May 12, 2021
Review of: The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas T. Allsen May 12, 2021
PODCAST Review of A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age, by Daniel Schönpflug May 2, 2021
PODCAST Review of A Tidewater Morning, by William Styron April 25, 2021
Review of: A Tidewater Morning, by William Styron April 25, 2021
PODCAST Review of Africa: A Biography of the Continent, by John Reader April 17, 2021
Review of: Africa: A Biography of the Continent, by John Reader April 17, 2021
Review of: Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, by S.C. Gwynne March 16, 2021
PODCAST Review of Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, by S.C. Gwynne March 16, 2021
Review of: A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age, by Daniel Schönpflug January 31, 2021
PODCAST Review of Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott December 31, 2020
Review of: Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott December 31, 2020
PODCAST Review of The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations, by Lucy Shipley November 22, 2020
Review of: The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations, by Lucy Shipley November 22, 2020
PODCAST Review of Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein October 31, 2020
Review of: Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein October 31, 2020
PODCAST Review of The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700, by Charles Freeman September 20, 2020
Review of: The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700, by Charles Freeman September 20, 2020
PODCAST Review of Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, by Karina Longworth August 3, 2020
Review of: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, by Karina Longworth July 31, 2020
PODCAST Review of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn July 9, 2020
Review of: Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn July 9, 2020
Review of: Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present, by Peter Ward June 19, 2020
PODCAST Review of Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor June 9, 2020
Review of: Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor June 9, 2020
PODCAST Review of Imagine John Yoko, by John & Yoko Lennon May 1, 2020
Review of: The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood April 28, 2020
PODCAST Review of At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl April 21, 2020
PODCAST Review of The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching April 18, 2020
Review of: A Warning, by Anonymous April 14, 2020
PODCAST Review of Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke April 8, 2020
PODCAST Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro April 4, 2020
PODCAST Review of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger April 3, 2020
PODCAST Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich March 30, 2020
Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich March 30, 2020
PODCAST Review of: “The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America,” by Stephen W. Campbell March 1, 2020
Review of: The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America, by Stephen W. Campbell February 29, 2020
PODCAST Review of: “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps,” by Amy Murrell Taylor February 1, 2020
Review of: The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger January 26, 2020
Review of: Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything, by Martin W. Sandler December 24, 2019
Review of: Engleby, by Sebastian Faulks November 30, 2019
PODCAST Review of: “Napoleon: A Life” by Adam Zamoyski November 14, 2019
Review of: Napoleon: A Life, by Adam Zamoyski November 14, 2019
Podcast Review of: “The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt” by Patrick H. Breen October 14, 2019
Review of: Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro October 2, 2019
Review of: The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt, by Patrick H. Breen September 7, 2019
Review of: Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke August 28, 2019
Review of: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill, by Candice Millard July 7, 2019
Review of: Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps, by Amy Murrell Taylor June 25, 2019
Review of: The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies, by Peter S. Carmichael May 27, 2019
Review of: Wanting, by Richard Flanagan May 14, 2019
Review of: Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record, by J. William Schopf May 5, 2019
Review of Egypt: Lost Civilizations, by Christina Riggs April 13, 2019
Review of: The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching March 31, 2019
Review of: The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, by Edward L. Ayers March 24, 2019
Review of: Imagine John Yoko, by John & Yoko Lennon February 3, 2019
Review of: Presidents of War, by Michael Beschloss January 30, 2019
Review of: Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights, by Steven Levingston December 31, 2018
Review of: Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami December 10, 2018
Review of: Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House, by Joseph A. Esposito November 18, 2018
Review of: Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America, by David O. Stewart October 17, 2018
Review of: Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward October 3, 2018
Review of: The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, by Marcus Rediker September 9, 2018
Review of: First Person: A Novel, by Richard Flanagan September 2, 2018
Review of: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein August 28, 2018
Review of: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham June 24, 2018
Review of: Time Travel: A History, by James Gleick June 9, 2018
Review of: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, by James Comey May 21, 2018
Review of: At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl, edited by Inge Jens May 6, 2018
Review of: Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell March 31, 2018
Review of: The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era, by Douglas R. Egerton March 26, 2018
Review of: The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House, by Daniel Mark Epstein February 26, 2018
Review of: Grant, by Ron Chernow February 3, 2018
Review of: In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, by Danny Goldberg December 31, 2017
Review of: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, by Roberto Calasso December 17, 2017
Review of Bush, by Jean Edward Smith December 10, 2017
Review of: JFK’S Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, by Thurston Clarke November 22, 2017
Review of: The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found, by Martin W. Sandler November 19, 2017
Review of: The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts: The Rise and Fall of a People’s Movement, by John R. Mulkern October 5, 2017
Review of: Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, by Bill Schutt September 30, 2017
Review of: Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery that Changed Our Human Story, by Lee Berger and John Hawks September 12, 2017
Review of: The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Stephen Mitchell September 3, 2017
Review of: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, by Ernest Hemingway August 26, 2017
Review of: Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami July 12, 2017
Review of: The Indus: Lost Civilizations, by Andrew Robinson June 23, 2017
Review of: The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Richard Flanagan June 4, 2017
Review of: Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils, by J. William Schopf May 14, 2017
Review of: Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War, by Peter Conradi April 30, 2017
Review of: Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway April 20, 2017
Review of: Atlas of Slavery, by James Walvin March 26, 2017
Review of: Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents, by Robert Strauss March 8, 2017
Review of: Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy, by David O. Stewart February 19, 2017
Review of: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, by Daina Ramey Berry February 11, 2017
Review of: Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, by Holger Hoock February 4, 2017
Review of: The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer January 17, 2017
Review of: Civil War Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Paul Negri December 31, 2016
Review of: Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, by Cynthia Barnett December 26, 2016
Review of: Maude (1883-1993): She Grew Up with the Country, by Mardo Williams December 16, 2016
Review of: The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History, by Paul Andrew Hutton November 24, 2016
Review of: In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, by Christian Marek November 17, 2016
Review of: American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804, by Alan Taylor October 30, 2016
Review of: The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, by William E. Leuchtenburg October 16, 2016
Review of: The State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer September 25, 2016
Review of: The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John, by Bruce Ware Allen September 5, 2016
Review of: Tara Revisited: Women, War & The Plantation Legend, by Catherine Clinton August 4, 2016
Review of: The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Cooperation and Communication, 1951-1971, by Fred Altensee July 4, 2016
Review of: New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Wendy Warren June 26, 2016
Review of: 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, by David Pietrusza June 4, 2016
Review of: On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads, by Tim Cope May 8, 2016
Review of: Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, by Jack McLaughlin April 24, 2016
Review of: Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh April 17, 2016
Review of: An Ape’s View of Human Evolution, by Peter Andrews March 20, 2016
Review of: Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West’s Sleaziest Swindlers, by Matthew P. Mayo March 3, 2016

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