Episodes
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Review of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Review of: "The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America," by Stephen W. Campbell
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Review of: "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps," by Amy Murrell Taylor
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
[CORRECTION: the podcast version of this review misidentifies the location of Napoleon’s death. Napoleon died on a remote island in the South Atlantic. The written text has been corrected.]
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Review of: "The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" by Patrick H. Breen
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Hero of the Empire" by Candice Millard
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill," by Candice Millard
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "The War for the Common Soldier" by Peter S. Carmichael
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies," by Peter S. Carmichael
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "The Thin Light of Freedom" by Edward L. Ayers
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America," by Edward L. Ayers