book reviews
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington, a former abolitionist preacher, led a military expedition against an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. The.
At the intersection of our hyperactive 24-hour news cycle media culture and the long-term effects of environmental inequality lies what the post-colonial literary scholar Rob Nixon calls "slow violence." Nixon.
Richard White's Railroaded is an utterly brilliant book. White has been one of the leading historians of the United States over the past 30 years. His first book, Land Use,.
It's hard to imagine a more hackish book review than what Ira Stoll pulls off at Reason. Reviewing Rich Cohen's new book on the United Fruit Company (this is the.
One of the nation's wealthiest communities, Aspen, Colorado has a complex relationship with the environmental movement and social justice. While a community deeply self-conscious about its own liberal politics, Aspen.
Lewis L. Gould, eminent historian of the Progressive Era presidency, has a new 73-page biography of Theodore Roosevelt. While one might legitimately ask whether we need another biography of the.
In 15 minutes, I'll be moderating a Firedoglake book salon for The Short American Century, an edited volume by Andrew Bacevich on the subject of American exceptionalism and the “American Century.” Dr. Bacevich.
Tomorrow evening from 5pm-7pm (Eastern) I'll be moderating a Firedoglake book salon for The Short American Century, an edited volume by Andrew Bacevich on the subject of American exceptionalism and the.
