online archive
3:00PM
NOV 30 2007
American history roundup
A review of Joseph Ellis's American Creation (and more and more). A review of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson. An interview with Jonathan Miles, author of The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century. The introduction to Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett. A review of What Hath God Wrought: Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe. More and more on American Transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura. A review of Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States. A review of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution by David A. Nichols. A review of Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black. A review of Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek and Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri. A review of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage by Nicholas Wapshott.
