Deterioration of the Soul
An opinion of what slavery can do to a person using information from "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass."
The slave owner, as...
Henry Knox: Visionary General: Mark Puls Highlights Forgotten Hero of the American Revolution
Called the definitive biography, the first Secretary of War is restored to American consciousness as if being led to a few gold bars from...
Effects of Racism from Richard Wright’s Black Boy
In his fictionalized autobiography, Black Boy, Richard Wright recounts his life growing up in the Jim Crow South. Throughout the book, Wright unfolds a...
Hear the Lonesome Whistle Blow Book Review
Dee Brown takes the reader back to the beginning of the railroad when the Iron Horse was in direct competition with the canals, such...
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and the Freemasons
Dan Brown's novel "The Lost Symbol" sends Robert Langdon on a quest to uncover the secrets of the Masons. The society of Freemasons has...
Larry Gara’s Liberty Line, a Critical Assessment
Larry Gara's Liberty Line, published in 1961, is unquestionably the most influential book on the Underground Railroad of the last 50 years.
Liberty Line, Its...
Eileen Welsome – The Plutonium Files
A remarkable book by Eileen Welsome on her investigation of U.S. radiation experiments on Americans during the Cold War period
In 1987, Eileen Welsome, a...
Michelle Moran: Madame Tussaud
In Michelle Moran's latest novel, Marie Grosholtz, known to history as Madame Tussaud, experiences the unspeakable horrors of the French Revolution.
Marie Grosholtz's uncanny ability...
Philip Curtin: The Image of Africa
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, an African image developed in Europe based on the reports of explorers and the biases of the...
Stephen Howe – Anticolonialism in British Politics
Stephen Howe's 1993 book studies the anticolonial movement in Britain following World War I and highlights the successes and failures of the movement.
In Stephen...