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• Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/08/30/review-of-scars-on-the-land-an-environmental-history-of-slavery-in-the-american-south-by-david-silkenat/

  

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  Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat

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  For several days we traversed a region, which had been deserted by the occupants—being no longer worth culture—and immense thickets of young red …

• Review of: “Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye” – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/08/20/review-of-harpers-ferry-under-fire-a-border-town-in-the-american-civil-war-by-dennis-e-frye/

  

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  Review of: Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye

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  Most people only know of Harpers Ferry as the town in present day West Virginia where John Brown, a zealous if mercurial abolitionist, set out to …

• 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 – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/08/12/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/

  

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  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

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  One of my favorite small venues for an intimate, unique concert experience is The Kate—short for The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center—in Old …

• Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/08/06/review-of-the-battle-of-negro-fort-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-fugitive-slave-community-by-matthew-j-clavin/
  
  

  

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  Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin

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  In yet another fortuitous connection to my attendance at the Civil War Institute (CWI) 2023 Summer Conference at Gettysburg College, I sat in on an …

• Latest book review and podcast are live: Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/07/29/review-of-saving-yellowstone-exploration-and-preservation-in-reconstruction-america-by-megan-kate-nelson/

  

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  Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson

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  As a child, one cartoon that habitually had me glued to our black and white TV set was the Yogi Bear Show, which spun a recurring comedic yarn …

• Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton – Regarp Book Blog https://regarp.com/2023/07/16/review-of-harriet-tubman-the-road-to-freedom-by-catherine-clinton/

  

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  Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton

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  In 2016, Jack Lew, President Obama’s treasury secretary, announced a redesign of the twenty-dollar bill that would feature on its front a likeness of …