Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Civil War Monitor, and Zocalo Public Square.
Bennett Parten
Articles
A Historian Forgotten: On Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance”
Bennett Parten reviews Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.”
American Revanchism: On Karen Joy Fowler’s “Booth”
Bennett Parten considers Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, “Booth,” about the United States’ most notorious assassin.
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.
The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6
How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”
Writing “Lincoln” let Vidal breathe life into his own self-perceived greatness.
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