Reviews
America’s Original Culture War
Matthew Sparacio reviews The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American Memory by Michael D. Hattem (Yale University Press, 2024)
Closing Time for Leonard Cohen
Michael Jimenez reviews Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Read one for the Gipper?
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game They Play Today by John Feinstein (Hachette, 2024)
One toe over the line
Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)
Is a Return to Public Trust Possible?
Stephanie Bennett reviews Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope by Jeffrey Bilbro (Baylor University Press, 2024)
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom
Elizabeth Stice reviews What You’re Made For: Powerful Lessons From my Career in Sports by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday (Portfolio, 2025)
Knowing the System: A Tale of Exploitation in College Athletics
Kimberly Bain reviews Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports by Guy Lawson (Little A, 2024)
Starving Dreamlessly or Sensemaking on the Western Front?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
A Promise Kept
Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)
“The American dream is calling: Won’t you pick up?”
Kimberly A. Bain reviews Drive: Scraping by in Uber’s America, One Ride at a Time by Jonathan Rigsby (Beacon Press, 2024)
Goodbye to all that?
William M Knoblauch reviews The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle (Oxford University Press, 2023)
English Common Law and British Imperial Intention
Elizabeth Stice reviews An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy by Christian R. Burset (Yale University Press, 2023)
Islands in the Stream
Joel Tannenbaum reviews Streaming Music, Streaming Capitalism (Duke, 2024) by Eric Drott, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024) by Rob Drew, and High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (Univ. North Carolina, 2023) by Marc Masters.
This scepter’d isle… England that was wont to conquer others
Elizabeth Stice reviews Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire by Charlotte Lydia Riley (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Indigenous Languages, History, and Accepting People for Who They Are: The Case of Squanto
Matthew Sparacio reviews Squanto: A Native Odyssey by Andrew Lipman (Yale University Press, 2024)
The Best of All Possible Biographies?
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024)
Just Read It?
Elizabeth Stice reviews After all, there is No Finish Line by Actual Source Books (2024)
The Worst Journey in the World: Now Illustrated
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel. Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down Graphic Novel adapted by Sarah Airress adapted from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Letter Better Publishing, 2024)
Coming Back to You: Mark Kinzer’s Jewish Christian Scriptures
Michael Jimenez reviews Stones the Builders Rejected: The Jewish Jesus, His Jewish Disciples, and the Culmination of History by Mark S. Kinzer (Cascade, 2024)