J.H. Plumb
From the Review
November 7, 1985: Franklin's Mint
A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son by Willard Sterne Randall
January 17, 1985: Spreading the News
Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis
November 10, 1983: Very Heaven
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784 by Charles Coulston Gillispie
May 29, 1980: Short and Sweet (letter)
March 20, 1980: Underqualified for the Job
The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II by Richard Ollard
December 20, 1979: Un-Kinglike King
Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration by Antonia Fraser
October 26, 1978: Easy Living
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
November 24, 1977: The Rise of Love
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone
November 27, 1975: How Freedom Took Root in Slavery
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
May 30, 1974: He Tried Harder
The Life of Captain James Cook by J.C. Beaglehole
April 19, 1973: Ravaged by Common Sense
Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words edited by Thomas Fleming
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Leonard W. Labaree, edited by Ralph L. Ketcham, edited by Helen C. Boatfield, edited by Helene M. Fineman
Road to Revolution: Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775 by Cecil B. Currey
Code 72—Ben Franklin: Patriot or Spy? by Cecil B. Currey
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin edited by Leonard W. Labaree, edited by William B. Willcox
March 8, 1973: Royal Herring (letter)
December 14, 1972: The Wolf's Clothing
King George III by John Brooke
George III by Stanley Ayling
December 16, 1971: Hogarth's Progress
Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times by Ronald Paulson
February 25, 1971: From Peking to Rome
Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley edited by Ivan Morris
Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864 by Philip A. Kuhn
The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel C.Y. Hsü
The China Reader, Vol I, Imperial China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The China Reader, Vol II, Republican China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The China Reader, Vol III, Communist China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The Religions of the Roman Empire by John Ferguson
Constantine by Ramsay MacMullen
Rome: The Center of Power by Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
October 8, 1970: Rabbit Stew
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
Frederick the Great by Gerhard Ritter, translated and with an Introduction by Peter Paret
February 26, 1970: Plantation Power
The World the Slaveholders Made by Eugene D. Genovese
Slavery in the New World: A Reader in Comparative History edited by Laura Foner, edited by Eugene D. Genovese
June 19, 1969: Farmers in Arms
Captain Swing by Rudé George, by E.J. Hobsbawm
William Cobbett, His Thought and His Times by John W. Osborne
The English Jacobins by Carl B. Cone
March 13, 1969: Slavery, Race, and the Poor
Black History: A Reappraisal edited by Melvin Drimmer
American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader edited by Allen Weinstein, edited by Frank Otto Gatell
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
Race Relations by Michael Banton
October 24, 1968: The Bourgeois Take-Over
The Bourgeois, Catholicism vs Capitalism by Bernard Groethuysen, translated by Mary Ilford, with an Introduction by Benjamin Nelson
Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century by Olwen H. Hufton
February 15, 1968: For Wilberforce's Aunt
Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Trade by James Pope-Hennessy
July 13, 1967: Excelsior!
Scott of the Antarctic by Reginald Pound
Peary, the Explorer and the Man by John Edward Weems
January 26, 1967: Franklin Unbuttoned
Mon Cher Papa, Franklin and the Ladies of Paris by Claude-Anne Lopez
November 3, 1966: Boney
The Bonapartes by David Stacton
Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Count Philippe-Paul de Ségur, translated by J. David Townsend, with a new Introduction by Peter Gay
1812 by Anthony Brett James
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler
Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms by Owen Connelly
Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Spain by Gabriel H. Lovett
March 17, 1966: Unconditional Negotiations
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard B. Morris
December 23, 1965: History in Spite of Itself
The Great Mutiny by James Dugan
December 9, 1965: Walpoliana (letter)
September 30, 1965: Horace Walpole at Yale
Horace Walpole's Correspondence edited by W.S. Lewis
August 5, 1965: For the Record (letter)
July 1, 1965: Amateurs
A Royal Affinity by Constance Wright
First Gentleman of the Bed Chamber by Hubert Cole
A Royal Spy by Edna Nixon
March 25, 1965: A King's Madness
The Royal Malady by Charles Chevenix-Trench
February 11, 1965: Burke and His Cult
Burke and the Nature of Politics by Carl B. Cone
December 3, 1964: Sir Lewis Namier
Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke by Charles Townshend
September 24, 1964: The Great Revolution
The Age of Democratic Revolution (Volume II) by R.R. Palmer
April 30, 1964: A Black Heart
The King Incorporated by Neal Ascherson
February 20, 1964: Enlightenment (letter)
February 20, 1964: Garrick Gaieties
The Letters of David Garrick edited by David M. Little, edited by George M. Kahrl
January 23, 1964: The Enlightenment
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment by Peter Gay
December 26, 1963: Dark Mission
Livingstone's African Journals 1853-56 edited with an Introduction by I. Schapera