by Site Owner | Jan 16, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
The World After Gold By Malcolm J. Rohrbough Yale University Press, $40.00, 368 pages Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush; one of the largest, and quickest, migrations to a single spot in the world. It encompassed many people who wanted to...
by Site Owner | Dec 30, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
What You Never Learned About the Revolutionary War in School By Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Yale University Press, $37.50, 496 pages American Public Schools have a lot of faults (they have a lot of pluses too but I’m not writing about them today) one of them...
by Site Owner | Dec 11, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Philosophy
Rise of Modern Philosophy By Denys Turner Yale University Press, 300 pages, $28.00 This is not your normal biography; very little of it is actually biographical about Thomas Aquinas since very little is known about his life. Instead, this is a book about...