A recently received a gift of a book that I am thrilled to add to my library. It is, Manet and the American Civil War published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [which I had the opportunit… more →
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Leena wrote 1 week ago: Critics, Historians, Publics When I started reading this book, I somehow assumed it would be a gener … more →
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stoa wrote 3 weeks ago: Profuse – at least in number.. – but rather confusing references we have received from the anci … more →
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rosewriter wrote 1 month ago: Historically Speaking is the bimonthly bulletin of The Historical Society. The Society’s inten … more →
h1storym0nkey wrote 1 month ago: Asked Juliet Gardiner in the Sunday Times yesterday. I couldn’t help feeling like channeling t … more →
Rene Tyree wrote 1 month ago: A recently received a gift of a book that I am thrilled to add to my library. It is, Manet and the A … more →
Mark Stoneman wrote 1 month ago: Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory has posted good material to his academic blog under the category, Th … more →
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rosewriter wrote 2 months ago: It occurs to me that I should have been more specific in my previous post about the two books … more →
rosewriter wrote 2 months ago: One of America’s foremost military historians, R. Don Higginbotham, died over the weekend, as … more →
roelder wrote 2 months ago: ‘You are fond of history! — and so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who … more →
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Jonathan Jarrett wrote 2 months ago: … then I’d just have found its mission statement I shall place the blame for the pligh … more →
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