Kirk Swinehart, assistant professor of history, has a reivew for The Chicago Tribune of Edmund Morgan’s latest book, American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America. Swinehart says: “as so many times before, Morgan proves himself one of our deftest thinkers about race — what he once called ‘the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom.'”
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Swinehart Says Hooper’s ‘Tall Man’ is “Mesmerizing”
by David Pesci •
Assistant Professor of History Kirk Swinehart reviews Chloe Hooper’s gripping new book Tall Man which recounts a true crime incident that brought Palm Island back into the public consciousness of Australians and made news throughout the world.
Swinehart on Merriman’s book The Dynamite Club
by David Pesci •
In The Chicago Tribune, Kirk Davis Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews John Merriman’s new book The Dynamite Club, which examines an 1894 anarchist bombing in Paris. Swinehart calls the book “that rare thing: virtuosic storytelling that doubles as superb history.”
Swinehart Reviews Historical Novel “Blindspot”
by David Pesci •
Kirk Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews the historic novel Blindspot in The Chicago Tribune. Set in 18th Century Boston, Swinehart says Blindspot “succeeds as raw entertainment; better, it soars as cunning academic revisionism.”
Lim on FDR’s “Intellectual” Fireside Chats
by David Pesci •
Assistant Professor of Government Elvin Lim talks about the intellectual complexity and near college-level language that FDR used in his popular fireside chats.
