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Posts tagged with ‘US History’
HOW “VILLAGE ATHEISTS” built a free-thought movement in the 19th century US. Absolutely engaging history!
Grade: A MINUS
VILLAGE ATHEISTS: HOW AMERICA'S UNBELIEVERS MADE THEIR WAY IN A GODLY NATION
Princeton University Press
2016
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social History, US History
A HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUG culture (and the larger counterculture) eccentrically orbits The Grateful Dead. B PLUS
HEADS
Da Capo Press
2016
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Music, Non-Fiction, US History
BEHIND THE MYTHOLOGY of eccentric writer Joe Gould, historian Jill Lepore uncovers a more complicated truth. B PLUS
JOE GOULD’S TEETH
Knopf Publishing Group
2016
TERRIFYING TEXAS MURDERS of the 1880s, brilliantly revisited by an incomparable true-crime writer. B PLUS
THE MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN
Henry Holt & Company
2016
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Texas, True Crime, US History
FASCINATING AMERICAN HISTORY looks at Boston’s 1721 smallpox epidemic, its impact on science and politics. A MINUS
THE FEVER OF 1721: THE EPIDEMIC THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MEDICINE AND AMERICAN POLITICS
Simon & Schuster
2016
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, US History
A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN: AN AFRICAN WARRIOR, HIS WHITE DESCENDANTS, A SEARCH FOR FAMILY
Free Press
2012
Tags: Biography, Cameroon, Genealogy, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, US History
THE END OF THE HAWAI’IAN monarchy and the rise of the “sugar kings” come alive in this fascinating history.
Grade: B PLUS
LOST KINGDOM: HAWAII'S LAST QUEEN, THE SUGAR KINGS, AND AMERICA'S FIRST IMPERIAL ADVENTURE
Grove Atlantic
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Hawai'i, History, Non-Fiction, Queen Lili‘uokalani, US History