Episodes

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

Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Grant" by Ron Chernow
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Grant" by Ron Chernow

Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Presidents of War" by Michael Beschloss
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Presidents of War," by Michael Beschloss

Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Impeached" by David O. Stewart
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy," by David O. Stewart

Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Dinner in Camelot" by Joseph A. Esposito
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House," by Joseph A. Esposito.