Entertainment & Arts
Smithsonian exhibition on the French and Indian conflict fills out a chapter of U.S. history.
Jan. 5, 2007
World & Nation
RE David Mamet’s “Attack of the Creeping Misnomer” [Oct. 2]: I take it that he was attempting to write something halfway between serious and preposterous.
Oct. 23, 2005
Books
Taken together, two fresh books on American Indian history show us just how far the field has come.
Dec. 24, 2015
Archives
CRUCIBLE OF WAR The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 By Fred Anderson; Alfred A. Knopf: 960 pp., $40
March 5, 2000
Wine bottle shards, musketballs and a pig’s skull, unearthed on a tiny island, are adding to knowledge of a seminal event in American history.
Nov. 10, 1991
The Dominion of War Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000 Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton Viking: 520 pp., $27.95 Empires at War The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763 William M. Fowler Jr. Walker & Co.: 332 pp., $27 1759 The Year Britain Became Master of the World Frank McLynn Atlantic Monthly Press: 432 pp., $27.50
July 3, 2005
Movies
Silly me!
Feb. 2, 1992
White Savage William Johnson and the Invention of America Fintan O’Toole Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 416 pp., $26
Dec. 18, 2005
Obituaries
George Strickland, ex-major league shortstop, dies at 84; Henri Salmide, WWII soldier who saved French port of Bordeaux, dies at 92; Edith Roberts, Pasadena activist, dies at 91; Robert McElwaine, former MGM publicist, dies at 86
Feb. 27, 2010
Travel & Experiences
History: Were bodies tossed into water supply when the French razed Ft. William Henry in 1757? Archeologist found no truth to the rumor, but lots of modern-day trash.
Nov. 9, 1997