Tag: history

• A RANT, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR INEXPLICABLY HAS TO DEFEND DEAD ROMANS

  

  Literature will mess with your head–but that doesn’t mean it should be softened.

  Jamie Greening

  May 13, 2015

  Bible, Books, Culture, politics

  College, Columbia University, education, history, Ovid, Shakespeare, Star Wars, the Bible, Trigger Points, Western Civilization

• A BOOK REVIEW OF “REBEL YELL” BY S.C. GWYNNE

  

  My book review of S.C. Gwynne’s biography of Stonewall Jackson

  Jamie Greening

  March 8, 2015

  All, Books, Culture

  Biographies, Book Review, Civil War, George McClellan, history, Rebel Yell, Robert E. Lee, S.C. Gwynne, Stonewall Jackson, The Confederacy, Union Generals

• GREENBEANS TOP THREE BOOKS–THE COMPLETE LIST

  Just a quick review here with the top three books from each category, and helpful links to the original blog posts.  Just click the category to read the Top Three. 1.  Influential Books 2.  Classic Fiction 3.  Contemporary Fiction 4.  Science Fiction 5.  Fantasy 6.  Biography 7.  History 8.  Personal Growth 9.  Books I Should Have…

  Jamie Greening

  May 31, 2014

  All, blogging, Books

  Biography, book, book lists, classics, Fiction, history, science fiction, theology, top books

• TOP THREE BOOKS: HISTORY

  History was my first academic love, and will always have a dear place in my heart.  It is one of the most unfortunate tragedies of life that most people think of history as boring and irrelevant, when the truth is the opposite.  History is fascinating and prescient.  Most everything that is happening now has happened…

  Jamie Greening

  May 19, 2014

  All, Books, Culture

  Empire of the Summer Moon, For the Glory of God, history, history books, How the Irish Saved Civilization, inquisition, Middle Ages, Quanah Parker, Rodney Stark, S. G. Gwynne, sociology, Thomas Cahill