books

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12/9/19
  

  Kate Shaw: Andrew Johnson Was Impeached for Being a Racist Demagogue

  An interview with Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. 

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• SOURCE: BBC History Magazine
  12/10/19
  

  37 books for history lovers: 11 Historians Select Their Favorite Books of 2019

  In the Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now, 11 historians selected their favourite historical page-turners published in 2019 .

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 12/10/19
  

  Annette Gordon-Reed Reviews Alan Taylor's Book Thomas Jefferson's Education for The Atlantic

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  "The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed."

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• 12/8/19
  

  Jack Miles' God in the Qur’an brings the three Abrahamic traditions to the table

  by Zaman Stanizai

  We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive, but we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Capital City and the Civil War

  by S.C. Gwynne

  In the winter of 1863–64, Washington was the most heavily defended city on earth.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/3/19
  

  Books by Garret Martin, Balazs Martonffy, Ronald Suny, and Kelly McFarland Featured in Article on NATO at 50

  by Jeff Inglis

  At 70, is NATO still important? 5 essential reads.

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  12/3/19
  

  The secret history of women in America, told through their belongings

  "Like the second wave feminists who popularized the expression, we believe the personal is political,” writes Michelle Delaney.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  Accessed 12/5/19
  

  Foreign Affairs Reviews James Banner's Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

  Banner describes the book as an exercise of “historians’ civic office.”

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  11/22/2019
  

  The Ten Best History Books of 2019

  by Angela Serratore

  Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/3/19
  

  ‘Well Worth Saving’

  by Scott Jaschik

  Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/18/19
  

  The Invention of Thanksgiving

  Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  11/6/19
  

  “If you liked this interview, you’ll love this book”: A Review of Sarah Milov’s The Cigarette: A Political History (2019)

  by Jaipreet Virdi

  "The history of the cigarette does not begin and end with Big Tobacco."

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• 11/3/19
  

  A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

  by Max Eisen

  "Once I put on these striped prisoner’s clothes, I felt like I was no longer a human being, only a number."

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/31/19
  

  How Talk Radio Transformed American Politics

  by Lara Freidenfelds

  A review of Brian Rosenwald’s Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  10/29/19
  

  ‘American Demagogue’ by J.D. Dickey Review: Preaching Revolution

  How much influence did the Great Awakening, driven by evangelists like George Whitefield, have on the cause of American independence?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/24/19
  

  ‘Cabinets of Curiosities’ delves into the history of collectors and their stunning, strange acquisitions

  In “Cabinets of Curiosities,” Patrick Mauriès tells the history of some truly awesome collectors.

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• 10/27/19
  

  New Jim Mattis Memoir Avoids Criticizing Trump, Instead Lashes Bush, Obama, and Others

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  With consequential elections forthcoming now is the time for Mattis to tell voters the unvarnished truth about Donald Trump.     

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• 10/27/19
  

  These American Political Bachelors Were Known as ‘Siamese Twins’ During the Antebellum Era

  by Erik Moshe

  Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were—and continue to be—an important part of success in American politics by exploring the relationship of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. 

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• 10/27/2019
  

  The Civil War's Unforgiving Final Year and How It Changed the War’s Legacy

  by S.C. Gwynne

  "What happened in the war’s final, brutal phase, is what I call the Lee Paradox."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/18/19
  

  Gail Collins' robust social history of America's changing attitudes towards women's aging

  No Stopping Us Now makes clear, for example, that two particularly challenging times to be an older woman in America were the youth-obsessed 1920s and 1960s.