American Empire: A Global History BY A.G. HOPKINS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 960 PAGES, $21.49 – The Cold War is popularly portrayed as a tense but relatively non-violent stand off between Soviet style Communism and Western Democracy. However, for most of… Continue Reading
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy BY MATTHEW KARP HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 368 PAGES, $26.95 – The Antebellum South has traditionally been portrayed as regressive and sectional, defensively focused on preserving slavery in the… Continue Reading
Historical tales are told through the eyes of the narrators. While ethnocentric history is often just human nature, it is a problem if we only see our own people as the shapers of history: as if we have been the… Continue Reading
It’s popular today to picture the American Indians tribes as though they were all 19th century, nomadic Plains Indians. However, at the time of 17th and 18th century colonial settlement the native inhabitants, particularly east of the Mississippi, were far from… Continue Reading