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March 3, 2021

Review: The Americas In The Revolutionary Era, Marshall C. Eakin

Rating: 3 out of 5 This was a solid overview of all of the American revolutions—and this is where I went astray—but it doesn’t…

December 13, 2020

Review: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement, Ashton Nichols

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not in two minds after finishing this book—but I can’t deny that when I started it sounded a…

October 14, 2020

Fort Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga has a name which might be difficult to remember at first, but once it’s in a mind it’s also unlikely to be forgotten….

October 11, 2020

Review: America in the Gilded and Progressive Era, Edward T. O’Donnell

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

September 3, 2020

Review: The American Mind, Allen C. Guelzo

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was a complex work, though still more an introduction given the span of time Mr Guelzo covered….

August 29, 2020

Review: The American West, Patrick N. Allitt

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a really interesting read for me: trying to understand how the United States came to be and…

August 19, 2020

Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is something fundamentally simple in Mr Bryson’s approach. While we aren’t dealing with a historian extraordinaire, it is…

August 3, 2020

Review: Notes from a Big Country, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 There’s a certain charm to collected news columns—that they were, perhaps, written over a long period, and we can…

April 6, 2020

Review: The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600-1763, René Chartrand

Rating: 4 out of 5 M Chartrand’s description of life in New France is improved by this edition. While the focus has passed from…

April 5, 2020

Review: French Fortresses in North America 1535 – 1763, René Chartrand

Rating: 4 out of 5 I enjoyed this overview: M Chartrand describes the state of Québec, Montréal, Trois-Rivières, Louisbourg, and New Orleans. The focus…

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