Featured Review
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Each year I choose a broad historical subject to immerse myself in and, if possible, come close to mastering. In 2024 it was the Italian Renaissance; the year before, the Industrial Revolution. In 2025 I turned to early colonial America. Of…
Recent Reviews
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The Story of Art (1955) by E. H. Gombrich
“There really is no such thing as Art,” E. H. Gombrich famously declares at the opening…
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Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (2002) by Leonard Richards
Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (2002) by Leonard Richards is one of those rare…
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic (2007) by Joseph J. Ellis
How did the American founding actually happen? That is the central question Joseph Ellis takes up…
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