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Tag Archives: Colonial America
No King, No Country
Will Inness fought for Parliament and Cromwell, but now he’s a wanted man. His crime was speaking up for his men, who were owed back pay, and pleading that they be given some land in the country for which they … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Britain, Colonial America, English Civil War, historical fiction, Inness Legacy, naval, Wayne Grant
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Short rounds: The Office, sword-making, and love in the time of yellow fever
The Office BFFs, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. Foes on the show, but IRL best friends Jenna and Angela here deliver a very personal memoir of not just the show, but of their friendship over the years – forged … Continue reading
Posted in General, Reviews
Tagged 2000s, architecture, arts-entertainment, audiobook, Colonial America, historical fiction, memoir, philosophy
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Log Cabin Pioneers
Log Cabin Pioneers: Stories, Songs, and Sayings© 2001 Wayne Erbson184 pages Few things are more evocative of the American frontier than a log cabin. This isn’t a new thing, either: log cabins entered American iconography as early as the 1840s, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Frontier, American South, architecture, arts-entertainment, Colonial America, history, music
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Early Alabama
Early Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years © 2019 Mike Bunn184 pages Published in time for the celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial, Early Alabama invites readers back to when the Heart of Dixie was still a wilderness, save for … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Alabama, American Frontier, American South, Colonial America, history
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Revolutionary Characters
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different© 2006 Gordon S. Woods352 pages Revolutionary Characters reviews the lives of several of the United States’ founding fathers to examine how the personal strengths and ambitions of these men allowed them to play … Continue reading
America Walks into a Bar
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops© 2014 Christine Sismondo336 pages Welcome, friend. Pull up a stool. You’ve come in at the tail end of a story, but it’s one … Continue reading
Act of Oblivion
Act of Oblivion(c) 2022 Robert Harris477 pages The puritan despot Cromwell is dead and the English king restored, but the balance books of history are not yet straight. There remain in England still breathing the men who presumed to put … Continue reading
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History© 2004 Thomas E. Woods290 pages I don’t remember when I first began to break from believing the Standard View of American history, the view promoted in the textbooks paid for by the State … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Civil War, Colonial America, Early American Republic, history, Politics-CivicInterest, Tom Woods
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Of cyclists, colonial Catholics, and crappy endings
Last weekend I stayed at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, there to be evaluated for admission to their kidney transplant list. Much of my downtime was spent (how else) reading. How Cycling Can Save the World is a straightforward argument … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged Africa, Catholicism, Colonial America, John Grisham, sports and outdoors
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Spain in the Southwest
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History© 2013 John Kessell480 In the early 1500s, the Spanish triumphed over the Aztecs and established a new Spain — an empire forged out of the new world. The equatorial tropics were only the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Southwest, American West, Colonial America, Native America, New Mexico, Spain
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