Crazy Horse…book review

by Richard Subber | Apr 28, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History | 0 Comments

…a loner and a lone eagle, says Larry McMurtry

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Society and Culture in America: 1830-1860…book review

by Richard Subber | Apr 23, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History | 0 Comments

Russell Nye tells the big story

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The Brothers…Civil War storytelling

by Richard Subber | Apr 12, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Joys of reading | 0 Comments

Jan Kovarik tells the story

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1491 by Charles Mann…book review

by Richard Subber | Mar 31, 2026 | American history, Books, History, Human Nature, Politics, Power and inequality, World history | 0 Comments

…lost American legacies

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Newspapers and Democracy (book review)

by Richard Subber | Mar 19, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Politics, Power and inequality | 0 Comments

a museum piece about “the free press”

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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

by Richard Subber | Jan 29, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Reflections, World history | 0 Comments

…too much death (book review)

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The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History

by Richard Subber | Jan 4, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature | 0 Comments

…humans and their faith, by Rodney Stark (book review)

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Golden Tales of New England…book review

by Richard Subber | Dec 25, 2025 | American history, Book reviews, Books, Joys of reading, Language | 0 Comments

Some feel-good stories of the 19th century…

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This America…by Jill Lepore, book review

by Richard Subber | Dec 21, 2025 | American history, Book reviews, Books, Democracy, History, Politics, Power and inequality | 0 Comments

The Case for the Nation

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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written…book review

by Richard Subber | Dec 16, 2025 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Language, Revolutionary War | 0 Comments

it didn’t come easy

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