Category Archives: Historical

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Written by: Harriet Beecher Stowe Very good character development and depiction of life for various slaves in the United States before the Civil War / War Between the States / War of Northern Aggression / Mississippi Fight Club Jamboree. Actual human beings as property, with every aspect of their lives hanging on the whims of […]

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Written by: Edmund Morris Holy crap Theodore Roosevelt is a total badass. He started as a sickly child, but decided instead he would be awesome and made it happen. Great stories like when he was District Attorney and his way for getting rid of the stupid Blue Laws in New York was to prosecute the […]

A History of Rome

Written by: Cyril Robinson This is what happens when two little kids are raised by wolves next to a big river. Basically they build a bunch of cool shit out of rocks, but later turn into Nazis, and then an evil space empire. It’s definitely a good listen, but you can also just watch the […]

Truman

Written by: David McCullough Having earlier read McCullough’s “John Adams” and both enjoyed it and learned a lot about the time period in which Adams lived, I was looking forward to this book both from a biography and historical knowledge perspective around the end of World War II and U.S. history. It was a big […]