Dusting Off the Old Stories (Review of 'A Promised Land,' by Adam Jortner) Jewish Review of BooksRichard KreitnerJanuary 15, 2025jews, revolution, history, slavery, constitution, book reviews
A Smarter, More Local Resistance DemocracyRichard KreitnerNovember 19, 2024trump, secession, federalism, elections
How White Greed Destroyed a Bank for the Newly Freed (review of 'Savings and Trust,' by Justene Hill Edwards The New York TimesRichard KreitnerOctober 19, 2024civil war, reconstruction, slavery, book reviews
Following the road to Civil War through Massachusetts and South Carolina (review of Robert Merry’s ‘Decade of disunion’) The Washington PostRichard KreitnerJuly 13, 2024civil war, second civil war, book reviews, slavery, abolitionism
A Savannah Poet (review of Jason Friedman's 'Liberty Street') Jewish Review of BooksRichard KreitnerJuly 1, 2024book reviews, civil war, slavery, literature, jews
Wildfires in the Hudson Valley: What Are the Risks? (Part 2) The Highlands CurrentRichard KreitnerJune 7, 2024hudson valley
Wildfires in the Hudson Valley: What Are the Risks? (part 1) The Highlands CurrentRichard KreitnerMay 31, 2024hudson valley
A Tale of Two Newburghs: Gentrification and Its Contradictions (inteview with Richard Ocejo) ChronogramRichard KreitnerMay 17, 2024gentrification, art, hudson valley, interviews
Is It Possible to Have a “Positive Collapse”? (review of Eric Cline's 'After 1177 B.C.) SlateRichard KreitnerApril 28, 2024book reviews, history
Americans Have Enjoyed Imagining Civil War for a Long, Long Time (review of Alex Garland's 'Civil War') SlateRichard KreitnerApril 11, 2024film, civil war, second civil war, secession, literature, war and peace
A Review of Amitava Kumar's ‘My Beloved Life’ ChronogramRichard KreitnerFebruary 1, 2024book reviews, literature
The Conquered General (review of Elizabeth Varon's 'Longstreet') SlateRichard KreitnerNovember 20, 2023civil war, reconstruction, book reviews, slavery
The Battle Over the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail ChronogramRichard KreitnerOctober 27, 2023parks, rivers, hudson valley
How Thomas Smallwood helped hundreds of enslaved people find freedom (review of Scott Shane's 'Flee North') The Washington PostRichard KreitnerSeptember 8, 2023slavery, abolitionism, book reviews
The great American crackup: Roe’s reversal would speed America’s race to disunion New York Daily NewsRichard KreitnerMay 8, 2022secession, federalism, abolitionism, constitution
Biographical Fallacy (review of James Traub’s Judah Benjamin) Jewish CurrentsRichard KreitnerFebruary 3, 2022jews, slavery, civil war, book reviews
Imagining a "Second Civil War" Is a Lost Cause (review of Stephen Marche's 'The Next Civil War') SlateRichard KreitnerJanuary 17, 2022second civil war, civil war, secession, book reviews
Did the Constitution Pave the Way for Emancipation? (review of James Oakes' 'The Crooked Path to Abolition') The NationRichard KreitnerOctober 6, 2021slavery, constitution, civil war, reconstruction, history, book reviews
The Unreconstructed Radical (review of Bruce Levine's 'Thaddeus Stevens') The BafflerRichard KreitnerMay 13, 2021civil war, book reviews, reconstruction, abolitionism, slavery, constitution
Why It’s Time to Take Secessionist Talk Seriously New York Review of BooksRichard KreitnerJanuary 19, 2021secession, civil war, second civil war, elections, federalism