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Showing posts with label American HIstorical Review. Show all posts

Showing posts with label American HIstorical Review. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Organized crime, Blackfoot redemption, and illicit Puritan sex: history books for genealogists

Books I'd like to read, as reviewed in the American Historical Review 119(1) February 2014: Robert M. Lombardo (Loyola University Chi...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Telling history through families

Historians are using families to tell history. Some examples, of which I have read only the first: Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations and Fami...

Monday, February 25, 2013

New History Books

It's always fun when a new issue of the American Historical Review comes around and I pick out books published a year or more ago that ...

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Tidbits from the History Table

Book reviews lead to expenditures, of time or money or both. In this case I found potential goodies dealing with the late 19th and early 2...

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Indians had a property system too

McGill University historian Allan Greer gets down to the details of how European property rules took over the New World in an article in the...

Monday, October 20, 2008

"Perhaps the most unlikely scenario"

The Midwest might have been very different. Francois Furstenburg considers what we might humorously call the "prehistory" of the M...

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