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Category Archives: History
Frozen in Time
“Greenland makes no sense,” writes author Mitchell Zuckoff in Frozen in Time. For one thing, it’s not green at all. More than 80 percent of Greenland is buried in ice. For centuries, the massive island has remained largely empty. During … Continue reading
The Body and Society
When considering the past, especially the ancient past, I sometimes think we imagine the people as one large group—or just a few large groups, divided by region. It definitely feels that way to me when we talk about “the early … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nonfiction, Religion
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
For much of the 19th century, the world’s two great superpowers of the time, Britain and Russia, were engaged in a struggle for control of the lands and, by extension the people, of Central Asia. On Britain’s part, the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nonfiction
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
William Wilberforce was a great man. This book, however, is not a great biography. I’d even go so far as saying it’s a dreadful biography, but I do have to give author Eric Metaxas credit for telling the story of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nonfiction
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Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace
In June 1858, the newly established divorce court in London heard the case of Robinson vs Robinson and Lane. Henry Robinson was seeking a divorce from his wife, Isabella Robinson, on the grounds that she had committed adultery with Edward … Continue reading
Farewell to Manzanar
When Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old, she and her family, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans, were forced to move into Manzanar, an internment camp in Owens Valley, California. They lived at Manzanar from 1942 to 1945, ostensibly … Continue reading
Posted in Children's / YA Lit, History, Memoir, Nonfiction
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Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
Jack had always been taken with Rochelle. He used to see her around the neighborhood and wanted to ask her out, but her parents were strict and she couldn’t have said yes even if she’d wanted to. He did ask … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Nonfiction
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The Hare With Amber Eyes
I read Edmund De Waal’s family biography after seeing a rave review of it over at Eve’s Alexandria. Victoria loved this book about the Ephrussi family’s generations-long ownership of 264 Japanese netsuke, loved it so much that she didn’t want … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, History, Memoir, Nonfiction
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Two 15-year-old girls, going to school at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. For Elizabeth, it was a monumental day that she and her family and neighbors had planned for months. It was the start of a … Continue reading
Young Romantics
There is, I think, a myth about creative genius that it takes place in solitary glory. Picture an author, writing. Picture Hemingway, or Wordsworth, or Shakespeare; picture George Eliot or Mary Oliver or Isabelle Allende. In my mind, unless I … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, History, Nonfiction
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