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Christian Wolmar's Blood, Iron and Gold: How Railroads Transformed the World takes readers on an intercontinental trip around the globe The following review was published earlier this week on the Books page of the History News Network website. Normal 0 false false false ...

In Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers, *** J. Reavis gets nickeled and dimed The following review was published last week on the Books page of the History News Network. In the introductory chapter of Catching Out, *** J. Reavis, a veteran Texas journalist who is currently assistant professor of English at North Carolina State ...

In which we see Ms. Bradstreet come to her senses The Maria Chronicles, # 45 The first thing Maria is aware of when she opens her eyes is the searing pain in her head. The second thing, which almost leads her to forget the first, is her daughter Felicity sitting at the foot of the bed, tearfully smiling at her. The third is the medical apparatus ...

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Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic captures the zeitgeist of an indulgent, anxious decade The following review was published last week on the Books page of the History News Network. In 1989, Tom Wolfe published one of his provocative magazine pieces, ''Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,'' in which he took American novelists to task for their ...

In which we see Ms. Bradstreet feel right at home (at the supermarket) The Maria Chronicles, #43 Maria is surprised when, after an early Sunday dinner, she leaves her apartment to go food shopping and finds there's still light outside: Spring is on the horizon. It's enough to take the edge off the drudgery of the task, though the accumulated ...

A scholar tries to understand how the children of the ruling class understand themselves The following review was published last week on the Books page of the History News Network website. It may well be a universal dilemma for individuals to want the benefits of privilege in a society without the burden of guilt and doubt they engender in ...

In which we see Ms. Bradstreet confronted with honor among thieves The Maria Chronicles, # 42 It's 7:11 a.m. when Maria steals into the copying room to run off two large sets of primary source documents, one on unionization efforts at the turn of the century and the other on the Progressive movement, for her survey class. This feels like an ...

Check out Sam Baker's Texas trilogy: All American Music The following piece is running this week on the home page of the History News Network. I'm one of those blue-state, Honda-driving, latte liberals who doesn't think Texas should have been admitted into the Union in 1845: the whole project was a pro-slavery naked power grab. (Of course, ...

Adam Gopnik makes an unlikely, but profound, comparison in Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life The following review was posted last week on the Books page of the History News Network website. ''He is as greedy of cases and precedents as any constitutional lawyer.'' --T.H. Huxley on Charles Darwin's The Origin of ...