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
Is It Possible to Have a “Positive Collapse”? (review of Eric Cline's 'After 1177 B.C.) SlateRichard KreitnerApril 28, 2024book reviews, history
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
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
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
Curiouser and Curiouser: Gowanus, Brooklyn’s Curious Canal (review of Joseph Galloway's 'Gowanus') Brooklyn MagazineRichard KreitnerOctober 28, 2015book reviews, new york city, parks, rivers
Vigilance: On the Underground Railroad (review of Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom) The NationRichard KreitnerMay 11, 2015slavery, civil war, abolitionism, book reviews
On the Centennial of The New Republic The NationRichard KreitnerNovember 24, 2014liberalism, book reviews
Burning Down the House (review of two books on the Chelsea Hotel) The NationRichard KreitnerJuly 7, 2014book reviews, new york city, literature, art, gentrification, capitalism, music
Tammany Kindness (review of Terry Golway’s Machine Made) Public BooksRichard KreitnerJune 1, 2014new york city, socialism, history, book reviews
Dangling Men (review of Greg Bellow's 'Saul Bellow's Heart') TabletRichard KreitnerMay 13, 2013book reviews, literature, jews
The Sons of Revolution and Steerage: On Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia (review of Mason Williams’ 'City of Ambition') The NationRichard KreitnerMay 6, 2013socialism, new york city, liberalism, photography, federalism, book reviews
First We Stake Manhattan: On the New York City Grid Plan (review of Marguerite Holloway’s The Measure of Manhattan) The NationRichard KreitnerApril 5, 2013new york city, history, book reviews, parks
My Lai Rules (review of Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves) The NationRichard KreitnerFebruary 13, 2013war and peace, book reviews