Glenn Arbery’s southern novel struggles with non-white characters
How the Confederacy fit in with European struggles for nationhood and republicanism
A new book explores the American history of a Biblical tale
Grace Olmstead meditates on whether a return to roots is possible
A rollicking alternative history of George Armstrong Custer
Jonathan Marks paints a more optimistic picture of the state of higher learning
A new biography of Thomas Paine seeks to restore religion to its rightful place in the Age of Revolution and the life of a controversial Founding Father.
Catharine Savage Brosman has crafted a volume of epigrammatic verse dedicated to landscape and stone, monument and mountain, solidifying her reputation as one of the finest poets of her age.
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