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02.18.12

1861: The Civil War Awakening

When did Americans start flying flags on town greens? According to Adam Goodheart in his widely (and justly) praised new history, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, the custom erupted in December 1860.
05.25.25

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents

Under the lingering ghostly influence of HL Mencken, the story of the 1920 presidential campaign is usually told for laughs.
05.25.25

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

The Israeli war for independence has never really ended. The issues in the conflict remain not only unresolved, but violently contested.
08.11.09

A Politics That Will Kill Us

Mitt Romney often joked during the primaries: “Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.” Try that joke the other way around, and it doesn’t work, does it?
05.25.25

Adam Bede

My review of George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life triggered a lively discussion over in the Corner. So I am excited to see what might ensue from another posting on Eliot, this time on her first full length novel, Adam Bede.
05.25.25

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington: now there is a name with which to terrify a young writer!
05.25.25

All the King's Men

I blame Christopher Caldwell, I really do. A few years ago, Caldwell dropped a bunker-buster of a negative review on Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men.
02.19.09

America Alone

I must be the last person on this website to get around to reading Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
09.23.07

American Notes

Charles Dickens’ American Notes gets little respect from critics, and you can see why.
03.15.09

American Pharaoh

What is it about Illinois? Three governors since 1968 have gone to jail, and a fourth seems headed to join them.
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