Who wants to feel less terrible about the environmental problems we face? Who wants to hear some happy stories? I know I do. Being a scholar of the natural world is not fun, let me tell you. Sure, you might get to go to some...
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 Slotkin is one of the nation’s premier historians of violence. Most known for his trilogy on western frontier violence, in recent years Slotkin has turned his attention to the Civil War, writing several popular books, both fiction and non-fiction, that continue his lifelong interest...
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.
Peter J. Hatch, the Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello has written a fascinating new book entitled “A Rich Spot of Earth”: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. A beautifully produced book, filled with historical images of seed catalogs, early 19th century gardens, and...
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.
The culmination of nearly a decade's worth of research, Dale Carpenter's Flagrant Conduct tells the story of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark 2003 case holding that bans on "sodomy" violated the implicit constitutional right to privacy. Easily the best book of its kind since Richard...
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.