Glenn C. Altschuler Reviews Steven Gillon’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ : A look at FDR, Pearl Harbor and a transformed presidency BOOK REVIEWS Source: The OregonianThe Oregonia, 11-26-11 PEARL HARBOR Steven M. Gillon Basic Books $25.99, 248 pages For millions of Americans, Dec. 7, 1941, is a date that lives in infamy. They remember Japan’s surprise attack [...]
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Glenn C. Altschuler Reviews Steven Gillon’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ : A look at FDR, Pearl Harbor and a transformed presidency
Posted by bonniekaryn on November 26, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/glenn-c-altschuler-reviews-steven-gillon-pearl-harbor-fdr-pearl-harbor-transformed-presidency/
DAVID HACKETT FISCHER: Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: NYT, 7-24-11 THE IDEA OF AMERICA Reflections on the Birth of the United States By Gordon S. Wood 385 pp. The Penguin Press. $29.95. Related Excerpt: ‘The Idea of America’ (Google Books) David Hackett Fischer teaches history at Brandeis University. He is the author of “Champlain’s Dream” and the [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 24, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/3269david-hackett-fischer-gordon-s-wood-historian-american-revolution/
Robert Jay Lifton: Life of a Psychohistorian
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: NYT, 6-17-11 Review by Maurice Isserman For many years, Robert Jay Lifton has been recognized as a leading “psychohistorian,” or as he prefers to define his vocation, a “historically minded psychiatrist.” Psychohistory is the field of inquiry that explores the psychological motives of individuals and groups of historical actors, [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 17, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/robert-jay-lifton-life-psychohistorian/
John Lewis Gaddis: Classic review: The Cold War – A New History
Source: CS Monitor, 5-1-11 The cold war: how it began, why it ended The Cold War: A New History By John Lewis Gaddis Penguin Group 352 pp. Enlarge [This review from the Monitor's archives originally ran on Dec. 20, 2005]. Fourteen years ago, in December 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told his country that the [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 1, 2011
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Timothy Snyder: Hitler’s, Stalin’s bloodlands instructive history
Source: Ken Osborne, the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 22, 2011 H7 Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin By Timothy Snyder, Basic Books, 524 pages, $36 BETWEEN 1933 and 1945, more than 14 million people in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and western Russia were killed, not for anything they did but simply [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on January 24, 2011
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Simon Schama: Essay on ice cream takes the cake in this exhilarating read
Source: South Africa, Independent Online, 1-24-11 Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and my Mother Simon Schama Bodley Head REVIEW: Donald Paul A UNIVERSITY Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, Simon Schama is one of those exasperatingly prolific writers, that is, he writes damned thick books, and lots of [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on January 24, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/simon-schama-essay-on-ice-cream-takes-the-cake-in-this-exhilarating-read/
Dolen Perkins-Valdez: A tender spot in master-slave relations
Source: WaPo, 1-21-11 Novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Photos By Mark Gail) Dolen Perkins-Valdez was reading a biography of W.E.B. DuBois when she came across the small aside. It was piece of history she hadn’t known, and couldn’t stop thinking about. The land for Ohio’s Wilberforce University, the nation’s oldest private historically black college, where DuBois had [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on January 23, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/dolen-perkins-valdez-tender-spot-master-slave-relations/
George Rable: In ‘God’s almost chosen peoples,’ UA historian explores religion in Civil War
HISTORY BOOK REVIEWS: Source: University of Alabama, 1-5-11 Amid the horrendous slaughter of the Civil War, people from all denominations turned to their faith to explain and justify the causes for which they fought – and to find reasons for pressing on. A new book by a University of Alabama professor takes up this essential [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on January 5, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/george-rable-gods-almost-chosen-peoples-ua-historian-explores-religion-civil-war/
Samuel Moyn: The Last Utopia traces the history of human rights policy
The Birth and Death of Human Rights Doctrine Samuel Moyn‘s The Last Utopia traces the history of human rights policy. Source: Slate, 1-1-11 Human rights—the notion that the protection of the immutable rights and freedoms of every individual on the planet supersedes all other concerns—did not always enjoy this prominent place in our political debate. [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on January 1, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/samuel-moyn-last-utopia-slate/
Top 12 Civil War books ever written
The top 12 Civil War books ever written One great book for each month of 2011, the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States: By Glenn W. LaFantasie Source: — Salon, 12-26-10 Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History and Director of the Institute for Civil War Studies at [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on December 28, 2010
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Daniel Rasmussen: New book chronicles largest slave revolt in U.S. history
Source: Louisiana Weekly, 12-27-10 Daniel Rasmussen, American Uprising The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt On January 8, 1811 a group of determined enslaved Africans set into motion a plan to rise up against slavery and take their destiny into their own hands. Vowing to cast the shackles that bound them to the sugar [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on December 27, 2010
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Stanley Harrold: Prof examines role of border states in Civil War
Source: The Times and Democrat, 12-21-10 A South Carolina State University professor goes beyond the traditional understanding of the Civil War’s causes in his new book. History professor Stanley Harrold explores the conflict and bloody violence over slavery in the border states in his latest book, “Border War” (University of North Carolina Press). The author [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on December 21, 2010
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New David McCullough book based on Christmas show
AP – FILE – In this March 3, 2008 file photo, author David McCullough arrives at the HBO premiere of ‘John … By HILLEL ITALIE, AP, 10-25-10 David McCullough’s latest book project did not begin with a president or a great war. It started with his friendship with Larry H. Miller, the late owner of the Utah Jazz [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on October 25, 2010
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Gordon S. Wood: Was Washington ‘Mad for Glory’?
by Gordon S. Wood New York Review of Books, 6-10-10 An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater Walker, 392 pp., $27.00 The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling Bloomsbury, 464 pp., $20.00 (paper) Washington-Custis-Lee Collection/Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA George Washington as Colonel [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 17, 2010
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Book Reviews: David La Vere’s “The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of the Lost Colony”
Digging up “The Lost Rocks” Source: Wilmington Star News, 6-7-10 David La Vere was going through back numbers of the Journal of Southern History when he found an intriguing item from May 1938. A team of Emory University scholars had examined a 21-pound rock found near the Chowan River in northeastern North Carolina – probably [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 7, 2010
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/history-shorts-david-lavere/
