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Review of:  Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com    

Review of:  The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry  Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com  

Review of:  The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by Manisha Sinha Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, by Scott Miller Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873, by Alan Taylor Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life, by Elizabeth D. Leonard Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog, www.regarp.com

Review of:  Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog 

Review of:  Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, by Harold Holzer Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  On Tyranny (Graphic Edition): Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder, Illustrated by Nora Krug Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War, by Michael Gorra Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, by Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, by Charles Freeman Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, by Scott Eyman Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, by C.W. Goodyear Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Making of the African Queen: Or How I went to Africa With Bogart,  Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind, by Katharine Hepburn Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of: The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog  

Review of:  Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856, and All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860, by Sidney Blumenthal Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI, by Judy Gumbo Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of: The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment, by Charles Freeman Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Passenger and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  After the Apocalypse: America's Role in the World Transformed, by Andrew Bacevich Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  1957: The Year That Launched the American Future, by Eric Burns Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849, by Sidney Blumenthal Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of:  Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog  

Review of:  Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life, by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of  The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by William J. Cooper Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of  Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, by Colin Edward Woodward Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of  Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of  Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by David Whitehouse Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of  Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human, by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier   Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog

Review of George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father,  by David O. Stewart Reviewed by Stan Prager, Regarp Book Blog