Book goes on sale today! Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...

Latest book review & podcast ... Review of: Question 7, by Richard Flanagan regarp.com/2025/10/25/r...

No, this is not the Onion ... This is the Republican Party today ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

My Civil War project focused on my adopted soldier Pvt. George W. Gould, who was killed at Cold Harbor, was featured in a story that was aired on Western Mass News TV this evening www.westernmassnews.com/2025/09/26/w...

Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller regarp.com/2025/09/21/r...

It's so frustrating. Melissa Hortman. People have forgotten her name. She was murdered by rightwing extremists but there was no national mourning, no flags at half mast, no national angst about violence and condemning political violence. Zilch.

Fascists prevail because the other side grants them the fairness & tolerance & space they ruthlessly weaponize to destroy them. That has always been the case and it is especially the case right now.

When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors. He wasn't disciplined.

Latest Book Review & Podcast ... Review of: Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, by J. Brent Morris regarp.com/2025/09/05/r...

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Latest review & podcast review ... Review of: Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas regarp.com/2025/08/03/r...

An outstanding piece by my brilliant friend Ashley Whitehead Luskey that should be republished and mandated as required reading for every American ... Ashley is Asst. Director at CWI Gettysburg www.historians.org/perspectives...

Bogie will always be my favorite actor of all time. Casablanca my favorite film. And this is a great bio of the man and his art, on and off screen. regarp.com/2022/08/31/r...

Another outstanding book by Angela Saini regarp.com/2021/11/13/r...

From the start,I have brought up the chilling similarity between the thuggery of masked,heavily-armed ICE agents without IDs or warrants rousting helpless refugees off the streets with the slavecatchers dispatched north to kidnap the escaped enslaved in the 1850s. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

OTD in 1814 near Niagara Falls, British troops commanded by General Phineas Riall thwarted an invasion of Canada by a U.S. force under General Jacob Brown in the Battle of Lundy's Lane. Learn much more about the War of 1812 in this fine history regarp.com/2015/10/01/r...

Excellent book review by a buddy of mine open.substack.com/pub/williame...

While we're on the subject of women's rights, this book by Angela Saini should be required reading regarp.com/2023/02/28/r...

OTD in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the US was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention. Learn how women's rights became allied with (and later at odds with) Civil Rights during Reconstruction in this fine book by @profmsinha.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2024/12/15/r...

OTD in 1940, FDR--usually judged our third greatest president--was nominated for an unprecedented third term. Quite the contrast to the current occupant of the White House. This outstanding bio of FDR is well worth the read regarp.com/2021/10/17/r...

OTD in 1945 The US tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the following month dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It could still mean the end of civilization as we know it. Read this book to find out how close we are regarp.com/2024/10/06/r...

OTD in 1964, Barry Goldwater was nominated as the Republican candidate for president. The best book about Goldwater and the rise of extremism in the Republican Party is this one by @rickperlstein.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2025/06/25/r...

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY! An unintended consequence of the French Revolution was the rise of Napoleon, whose life is chronicled in this outstanding bio regarp.com/2019/11/14/r...

OTD in 1990 Boris Yeltsin resigned from Communist Party. This book details all the missed opportunities by the West in bringing a reborn Russia into the family of nations regarp.com/2017/04/30/w...

In July 1775, the 2nd Continental Congress established the Continental Army with George Washington as commander-in-chief. It’s tragic that as we approach July 4th 2025 we have surrendered our honor and our democracy without a shot being fired. Washington would surely weep regarp.com/2022/01/23/r...

Still reading @rickperlstein.bsky.social backwards .... Review of: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein regarp.com/2018/08/28/r...

If you want to continue reading Rick Perlstein backwards ... Review of: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2015/10/11/r...

If you want to read Rick Perlstein backwards ... here's the latest ... Review of: Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980, by @rickperlstein.bsky.social ... regarp.com/2020/10/31/r...

The latest Podcast on Spotify … Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1jmh...

Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by @rickperlstein.bsky.social Rick Perlstein regarp.com/2025/06/25/r...

OTD in 1788 the Constitution was ratified. In 2025 it has never been more under assault by all three branches of our government. This is a great book about Madison, a central figure in the design of the Constitution, who would no doubt be horrified were he alive today regarp.com/2018/10/17/r...

For Juneteenth, a reminder of the horror of human chattel slavery, the central cause of the Civil War and the stain of racism it begat that yet clings to our nation's zeitgeist in 2025 regarp.com/2017/02/11/r...

This is a sobering but required read as we hear cavalier talk by allies and adversaries of using nuclear weapons in any capacity regarp.com/2024/10/06/r...

Today's handbook by @timothysnyder.bsky.social ... Do not obey in advance regarp.com/2024/04/18/r...

Maybe it's a good time to revisit the sixties ... regarp.com/2017/12/31/r...

Historian here I hope this man handling of a sitting U.S. Senator, Alex Padilla, will generate the same outrage as the caning of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in 1856.

I hope to see you at our No Kings Day event in Springfield on June 14! Join our nationwide day of defiance to reject Trump’s tyranny and ruin his self-serving birthday parade. app.sosha.ai/s/Ds84WRj9

Please help me spread the word about this rally in support of the National Park Service, which will take place at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park on June 16 from 4-6:30PM. Thank you. #NationalParks #PublicHistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I was proud to learn that my review of Chernow's "Grant" was featured today on "Reading Ladies Book Club" site. Scroll down to Father's Day reads ... readingladies.com/2019/06/07/t...

This is absolutely reprehensible.

Might be a good time to revisit the Sixties ... regarp.com/2023/02/12/r...

Hans & Sophie were betrayed while distributing White Rose leaflets by a janitor. I can’t help imagining him much like some miserable, disaffected middle-aged fellow standing in the back of a populist rally here, wearing a red MAGA cap regarp.com/2018/05/06/r...

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

OTD in 1966, Ronald Reagan was nominated for governor of CA. We can draw a line from Reagan's dismantling of the legacy of the New Deal & America's continued decline as a nation of genuine ideals. This outstanding book by @rickperlstein.bsky.social covers his rise to POTUS regarp.com/2020/10/31/r...

How embarrassing is this when Trump said June 6th was a bad for Germany, Merz reminded him that it was the day his country was liberated by the allies from Nazis!

On the 81st anniversary of D-Day, from today's standpoint it seems almost unfathomable that less than one lifetime ago we had a President of the United States of the superlative caliber of FDR, who magnificently shepherded us thru economic catastrophe and world war regarp.com/2021/10/17/r...

If you enjoy fascinating, little-known Civil War history, this is the book for you! regarp.com/2015/06/21/r...

The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg Summer Conference 2025 is just two weeks away, and for those of you still on the fence it is indeed THE gold standard for history conferences--and readers of my Regarp Book Blog receive 15% off registration! Check out more info here: regarp.com/civil-war-in...

John F. Kennedy was born 108 years ago today, and tragically left us far too soon. This fine book by Joe Esposito well captures the short but magnificent "Age of JFK" ... regarp.com/2018/11/18/r...