History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » American History Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 American History on the Web - Savages and Scoundrels http://www.historynet.com/american-history-on-the-web-savages-and-scoundrels.htm http://www.historynet.com/american-history-on-the-web-savages-and-scoundrels.htm#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:37:33 +0000 ckreiser http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687810 www.savagesandscoundrels.org

Savages and Scoundrels:
The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire
Through Indian Territory
Companion book by Paul VanDevelder (Yale)

Making history fun isn't always easy, especially when the topics are gnarly. But this brilliant one-two combo of engaging …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/american-history-on-the-web-savages-and-scoundrels.htm/feed 0 Book Review: CHANCELLORSVILLE (Stephen W. Sears) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-chancellorsville-stephen-w-sears-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-chancellorsville-stephen-w-sears-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
CHANCELLORSVILLE, by Stephen W. Sears (University of South Carolina Press, 203 pages, $29.95).

Sears,acknowledged as one of today's foremost Civil War scholars, draws on the papers of the Union's General JosephHooker (1814-79), and a wealth of previously unpublished material, including …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-chancellorsville-stephen-w-sears-ah.htm/feed 1 Book Review: DUKE: THE LIFE AND IMAGE OF JOHN WAYNE (by Ronald L. Davis) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-duke-the-life-and-image-of-john-wayne-by-ronald-l-davis-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-duke-the-life-and-image-of-john-wayne-by-ronald-l-davis-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
DUKE: THE LIFE AND IMAGE OF JOHN WAYNE, by Ronald L. Davis, University of Oklahoma Press, 377 pages, $24.95.

To someone like this reviewer, who grew up inside the movie industry, it seems incredible that Ronald Davis did not; he …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-duke-the-life-and-image-of-john-wayne-by-ronald-l-davis-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: DALTONS! THE RAID ON COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS (Robert Barr Smith ): AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-daltons-the-raid-on-coffeyville-kansas-robert-barr-smith-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-daltons-the-raid-on-coffeyville-kansas-robert-barr-smith-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
DALTONS! THE RAID ON COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS
by Robert Barr Smith (University of Oklahoma Press, 237 pages, $24.95). Smith's account of the infamous Dalton gang's October 5, 1892 attempt to rob two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks simultaneously breaks with tradition by focusing …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-daltons-the-raid-on-coffeyville-kansas-robert-barr-smith-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: COLONEL ROOSEVELT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT GOES TO WAR, 1897-1898 (H. Paul Jeffers) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-colonel-roosevelt-theodore-roosevelt-goes-to-war-1897-1898-h-paul-jeffers-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-colonel-roosevelt-theodore-roosevelt-goes-to-war-1897-1898-h-paul-jeffers-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
COLONEL ROOSEVELT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT GOES TOWAR, 1897-1898, by H. Paul Jeffers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 311 pages, $27.95).

With the help ofdiaries, letters, and memoirs written by Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), as wellas government archival material and military histories, Jeffers …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-colonel-roosevelt-theodore-roosevelt-goes-to-war-1897-1898-h-paul-jeffers-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: THE VOYAGE OF THE MATTHEW: JOHN CABOT AND THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA (Peter Firstbrook) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-voyage-of-the-matthew-john-cabot-and-the-discovery-of-north-america-peter-firstbrook-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-voyage-of-the-matthew-john-cabot-and-the-discovery-of-north-america-peter-firstbrook-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
THE VOYAGE OF THE MATTHEW: JOHN CABOT AND THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA, by Peter Firstbrook (Bay Books and Tapes, 192 pages, $18.95, softcover).

With this year marking the five-hundredth anniversary of the voyage of explorer John Cabot to North …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-voyage-of-the-matthew-john-cabot-and-the-discovery-of-north-america-peter-firstbrook-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: THE CIVIL WAR IN BOOKS: AN ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (David J. Eicher) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-civil-war-in-books-an-analytical-bibliography-david-j-eicher-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-civil-war-in-books-an-analytical-bibliography-david-j-eicher-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
THE CIVIL WAR IN BOOKS: AN ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, by David J. Eicher (The University of Illinois Press, 407 pages, $39.95).

Notingthe lack of a bibliography broad or current enough to provide a sufficient list of theworks needed to acquire a …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-civil-war-in-books-an-analytical-bibliography-david-j-eicher-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: Bernt Balchen, Polar Aviator (Carroll V. Glines) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-bernt-balchen-polar-aviator-carroll-v-glines-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-bernt-balchen-polar-aviator-carroll-v-glines-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
C.V. Glines' biography of underappreciated Bernt Balchen chronicles an adventuresome life.

By Walter J. Boyne

Bernt Balchen is without question one of the most underappreciated heroes of our times. A man of immense personal courage, and gifted with the highest …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-bernt-balchen-polar-aviator-carroll-v-glines-ah.htm/feed 1 Book Review: Trial and Triumph: Presidential Power in the Second Term (Alfred J. Zacher): AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-trial-and-triumph-presidential-power-in-the-second-term-alfred-j-zacher-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-trial-and-triumph-presidential-power-in-the-second-term-alfred-j-zacher-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
TRIAL AND TRIUMPH: PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN THE SECOND TERM
by Alfred J. Zacher (Presidential Press, 349 pages, $24.95). The first attempt to study U.S. presidents' second terms, Zacher's work examines the political life of 17 of the 18 incumbents that …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-trial-and-triumph-presidential-power-in-the-second-term-alfred-j-zacher-ah.htm/feed 0 Book Review: THE BATTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES (Joseph H. Alexander) : AH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-battle-history-of-the-united-states-marines-joseph-h-alexander-ah.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-battle-history-of-the-united-states-marines-joseph-h-alexander-ah.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
THE BATTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES, by Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.) with Don Horan and Norman C. Stahl (HarperCollins Publishers, 416 pages, $30.00).

Military historian Joseph Alexander, who served in the Marine Corps for 28 years, …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-battle-history-of-the-united-states-marines-joseph-h-alexander-ah.htm/feed 0