HNR Issue 43 (February 2008)
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
Edmund White uses the life of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, to present this interesting novel-within-a-novel.…
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775
One of the major ironies of American history is that one of the first policy decisions taken by the American…
The Star Garden
Turner shares with us another episode in the life of Sarah Prine, a widow living in the Arizona Territory in…
The Last Princess
The pendulum of public opinion seems to have swung as far as it will go with regard to Queen Victoria…
The Secret Ever Keeps
On the same day that Laurel Kingsford is passed over for promotion in what is obviously an act of sex…
Tutankhamun’s Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt’s Late 18th Dynasty
Despite the specific title, this book covers more than the short reign of the boy-king Tutankhamun; it is a complete…
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
Pocahontas’s life has reached mythical proportions. How could any book possibly offer new information? The True Story of Pocahontas was…
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson left the presidency and retired to his beloved home in Monticello. He died,…
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents.…
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44
This the second of the author’s studies of the US Army’s role in the liberation of Europe during World War…
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