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Book & Film Reviews |
A collection of documents, among them diaries, letters, and memoirs. These are the voices of real people talking about life as it occurs around them.
The life stories of the famous and the obscure, reflecting the realities of their times.
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life
book review
Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk
book review
John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father
book review
Uncas: First of the Mohegans
book review
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship between a First Lady and a Former Slave
book review
Braveheart
film review
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The western hemisphere before Columbus, the Columbian Exchange and the Golden Age of Piracy
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Voyages of Delusion:
The Quest for the Northwest Passage
book review
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark
book review
The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
book review
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
film review
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Domestic Arts
Life before labor-saving appliances and the invention of leisure time.
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The Age of Homespun
book review
Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821
book review
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Our miscellania collection.
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History's Last Stand: The Last Gasps, Fatal Falls and Fateful Final Gambles
book review
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Articles on the complexities and inanities of war; currently on the American Revolution and the Civil War.
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The Billy Ruffian, The "Bellerophon" and the Downfall of
Napoleon: The Biography of a Ship of the Line, 1782-1836
book review
Gettysburg
book review
Cold Mountain
film review
Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network
book review
Master and Commander
film & book reviews
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
book review
The Patriot
film review
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Pastimes & Sports
The entertainments and activities of the past.
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Indian Summer: The Tragic Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball
book review
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Conviviality, social and political movements, and matters of faith.
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Women Out of Bounds: The Secret History of Enterprising Women
book review
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and lasting
Legend of the Pony Express
book review
Gangs of New York
film review
Gangs of New York
book review
Taverns and Drinking in Early America
book review
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The history of industry, inventions and scientific discoveries.
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Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot
book review
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
book review
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