Abolitionism’s George Washington
The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father By Caleb Franz. Post Hill Press, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Peter Biles. The past is like a waterfall, and history is like the glass of water we pull from it....
Outlining Sanity in the Garden
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity By Carol Deppe. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Eric Scheske. American gardening literature is a big thing. Amazon has an...
Frontier Fiction at Its Best
The Cannibal Owl By Aaron Gwyn. Belle Point Press, 2025. Paperback, 80 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Daniel Cowper. The Cannibal Owl, by Aaron Gwyn, is a novella about Levi English, a boy on the Texas frontier of the 1820s who grows up among a band of Comanche. It is...
The Dangers of Modern Nationalism
A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 By Carlton J. H. Hayes. Harper Collins, 1941. Reviewed by John Rossi. When I started teaching an introductory European History course over 60 years ago, I chose as my textbook Carlton Hayes’s two volume A Political and Cultural...
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