Book Review: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
Based on a true story, a slave to the Van Lew family in Virginia is freed Mary and sent to school in Philadelphia.
Tag Archives: American Civil War
Book Review: When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna
On 17 December, 1862 Major-General Ulysses S. Grant issued his infamous General Order No. 11 expelling all Jews from his military district.
Book Review: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
A novel about the first class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Belated Thoughts on the Civil War Sesquicentennial
Tuesday marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.
America’s Military: The Tactical Evolutionary Lag and the Price Being Paid for It
The reality of what war as a business has done to our country.