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… War historian Robert K. Krick’s latest book—an eclectic but compulsively readable collection of ten essays on Robert E. … of course, at the hands of his own men. Pursuing the Federals in the moonlit darkness after his storied flanking … error. Indeed, within 12 months he would be named a brigadier general. But James Lane, who continued to serve in the …

… in the past decade. One of the more controversial recent studies on slavery was a two-volume work by Robert W. Fogel and … School, has produced in “Justice Accused” an interesting combination of legal history and jurisprudential analysis. … of the drama surrounding the decisions of the four principals. The treatment is starkly legalistic, with relatively …

… rhythms of her obsessions with both the news and radio, rituals that reach back to childhood. (She was reading the New … night.) Radio, she says—the voices found there—has kept her company all her working life as an artist. And she is, … began curating, arranging stories into sets.  Engler had completed a year-long project before (365 days drawing each …

… Illustrated with maps. 2 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. $10.00. The Story of the American Indian. By Paul … readers; reproductions and reprints of original materials, either directly from Indian sources, or indirectly … a vast store of invaluable information about Indians, embodied in the reports of Jesuit missionaries charged with the …

… Virginia, is “a place of old emprise.” Here the London Company, in 1620, promoted iron works. It would seem from … Girl, who, with great Difficulty, hid themselves.” At intervals of generations desultory attempts were made at revival … slower in analyzing its consequences in the present, and tardiest of all in conjecturing what will fall out in the …