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Forces of Good and Evil
Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… period, including how the conflict offered “new spaces of meaning” for photography. This a frustrating omission in …
The End of the War as They Knew It
Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas
… Christmas, switched to Hanukkah and found it more meaningful. Likewise, Silberman noted, more American Jews …
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies
Review of Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East, by Michael Quentin Morton (London: Reaktion Books, 2017)
… main thesis is unclear as he does not explain his intended meaning of empires, and waits until the 10th chapter to …
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies
Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Review of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
… in 1998 by embracing the concept of "regime change"—meaning that he would favor the overthrow of Hussein—but …
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
… from the general counsel seeking a surveillance warrant, meaning procedures to reduce the possible interception of …
Solar Eclipses in American History
… their own people . By then, hunger, disease , and violence plagued remaining Indian populations in Ohio: Shawnee, …
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future
… relentlessly, and to hope for a better future in a country plagued with socioeconomic and racial inequality. The famous …
