Book Reviews
Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:39 am
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, by Randall Fuller (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by Davis S. Reynolds (Norton, 2010)
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HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:16 pm
In his book The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery, Joe Johnston reconstructs the details of this 1883 shotgun killing in Missouri.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:08 pm
In his new book Vengeance Is Mine, Bill Neal delves into the passions behind the Boyce-Sneed Feud in early 20th century Amarillo.
Richard B. Frank |
Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
A new book shows where Japan went wrong at Pearl Harbor
Patrick Clark |
Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
You can't afford mistakes in this challenging new first-person shooter
Marc Leepson |
Published: November 16, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Some historical perspective on the different ways that "Vietnam" has influenced the Oval Office
Marc Leepson |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds
R.V. Lee |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:58 pm
A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor's war
Bill Jordan |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:52 pm
The ingredients that combined to create the Mayaguez disaster, the "last battle of the Vietnam War," following the fall of Saigon
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Sheds some light on an early workhorse, and warhorse, of the air war in Indochina--the first Western jet fighter capable of sustained Mach 1 flight
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rodric Braithwaite considers the parallels between the Soviet war in Afghanistan and modern-day conflicts in that long-turbulent region.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind revisit the Napoleonic wars through the memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and civilians.
Published: October 07, 2011 at 9:59 am
I received some good discussion on my last post. Some took me to task, others were supportive, and still others were non-committal. At issue was the notion of how much of history is an eye-of-the-beholder narrative and how much is—to …
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