Category: Book Review

Essay on the USS Indianapolis Tragedy and Its Relevance to the Navy’s Core Values Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts  Winston Churchill. Not many people today know the case of the sinking of USS Indianapolis during World War II, the worst sea disaster in…

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: Essay Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad by Christine Rudisel is a detailed book about the Underground Railroad and it recounts the intense escape from slavery that different slaves experienced. It has 203 pages of in-depth stories about the Underground Railroad and lots of the people who were involved…

How Eckhart Tolle’s Book ‘The Power of Now’ Taught Me the Importance of Living in the Present Moment Why are we constantly unhappy? Why our daily life is so full of regret and anxiety? What is making true relationships so hard to keep? Tolle gives answers to these questions in his book The Power of…

The Book and Movie Review: Julius Caesar Released by 1979, Julius Caesar BBC is quite similar to all high school students and people who love history. The controversial first series of the BBC Television Shakespeare. The Julius Caesar was Cedric Messina’s second television adaptation of the play, the first having been made for the Play…

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience A Storm of Witchcraft written by Emerson W. Baker is a complete and detailed analysis of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in 1692. Emerson Baker is a historical archeologist and history professor at Salem State University which in turn has led him…

Silence of The Lambs’: Critical Analysis Essay The silence of the lambs I have read the horror book ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. The author, Thomas Harries started his career reviewing crime novels while working as a reporter in New York. He made his debut in 1975 and has since become a best-selling author worldwide,…

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory’: Book Review The argument of Clampitt, which is repeated in subsequent chapters, is that the Civil War and Reconstruction period in the history of the Indian Territory were complicated and always evolving. This series of eight essays and the editor’s ‘Introduction’ focuses on the Civil War west…

Reconstruction and Gilded Age Southern Life in Edward L. Ayers’ The Promise of the New South The Promise of the New South, a non-fiction mid-Reconstruction literature piece by Edward L. Ayers. To start, the first half of the book is filled with perspectives on the South itself, with no specific character but perspectives from almost…

Essay on The Devils Snare by Mary Beth Norton: Analysis of the Role of the Salem Witch Trials In the Devils Snare, written by Mary Beth Norton, is a book reexamining the events taking place that possibly affected the outcome of the Salem Witch Trials. Mary Beth Norton is an award winning historian and a…

North Killed Reconstruction Essay Over the nineteenth century, relations between the North and South became progressively more strained as the regions began to differ more and more in both their economies and their ideals. The Northern economy expanded further into industry and modernization and had far less need for slavery compared to the Southern economy,…