All Episodes
Regarp BookBlogPod — 97 episodes
Review of: They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws, by Kirk Ellis
Review of: Got a Revolution!:The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, by Jeff Tamarkin
Review of: The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic, by Ryan L. Cole
Review of: The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier, by Megan Kate Nelson
Review of: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney
Review of: Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos, by Candace Rondeaux
Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller
Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris
Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas
Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein
Review of: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry
Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by Manisha Sinha
Review of: Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen
Review of: The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, by Scott Miller
Review of: American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873, by Alan Taylor
Review of: Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life, by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Review of: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard
Review of: Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, by Harold Holzer
Review of: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw
Review of: On Tyranny (Graphic Edition): Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder, Illustrated by Nora Krug
Review of: The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War, by Michael Gorra
Review of: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy
Review of: Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, by Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume
Review of: The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, by Charles Freeman
Review of: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
Review of: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, by Scott Eyman
Review of: The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Review of: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, by C.W. Goodyear
Review of: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, by David Silkenat
Review of: Harpers Ferry Under Fire: A Border Town in the American Civil War, by Dennis E. Frye
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
Review of: The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, by Matthew J. Clavin
Review of: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, by Megan Kate Nelson
Review of: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton
Review of: The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine
Review of: Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss, by Angela Esco Elder
Review of: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin
Review of: Wrestling With His Angel:The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856, & All the Powers of Earth:The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860,by Sidney Blumenthal
Review of: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, by Angela Saini
Review of: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI, by Judy Gumbo
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
Review of: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
Review of: The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations, by Paul Collins
Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy
Review of: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
Review of: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in the World Transformed, by Andrew Bacevich
Review of: 1957: The Year That Launched the American Future, by Eric Burns
Review of: Bogart, by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax
Review of: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849, by Sidney Blumenthal
Review of: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs
Review of: Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life, by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Review of The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics, by William J. Cooper
Review of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, by Colin Edward Woodward
Review of Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick
Review of Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by David Whitehouse
Review of Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human, by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier
Review of George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, by David O. Stewart
Review of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, by Alan Taylor
Review of Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
Review of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, by Robert Dallek
Review of Flight to Freedom, by Ellen Oppenheimer
Review of Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia, by Stephan Orth
Review of Tim & Tigon, by Tim Cope
Review of The Caucasus: An Introduction, by Thomas De Waal
Review of A History of Crete, by Chris Moorey
Review of The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas T. Allsen
Review of A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age, by Daniel Schönpflug
Review of A Tidewater Morning, by William Styron
Review of Africa: A Biography of the Continent, by John Reader
Review of Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, by S.C. Gwynne
Review of Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott
Review of The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations, by Lucy Shipley
Review of Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980, by Rick Perlstein
Review of The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700, by Charles Freeman
Review of Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, by Karina Longworth
Review of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Review of Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor
Review of Imagine John Yoko, by John & Yoko Lennon
Review of At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl, edited by Inge Jens
Review of The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Review of Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke
Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
Review of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger
Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich
Review of: "The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America," by Stephen W. Campbell
Review of: "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps," by Amy Murrell Taylor
Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
Review of: "The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" by Patrick H. Breen
Review of: "Hero of the Empire" by Candice Millard
Review of: "The War for the Common Soldier" by Peter S. Carmichael
Review of: "The Thin Light of Freedom" by Edward L. Ayers
Review of: "Grant" by Ron Chernow
Review of: "Presidents of War" by Michael Beschloss
Review of: "Impeached" by David O. Stewart
Review of: "Dinner in Camelot" by Joseph A. Esposito