Bennett Parten

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.

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.”...

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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....

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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....

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The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

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Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”

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