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Reviews 2026

Books
  • Camarillo, Albert M.
    Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Sanely Galarza

     

  • Chang, Kornel S.
    A Fractured Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation.
    Reviewed by Christopher Musnicky

     

  • Davis, Elisabeth C.
    Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority,
    and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847–1918
    .
    Reviewed by Jade Phillips

     

  • Dieterich-Ward, Allen.
    Cradle of Conservation: An Environmental History of Pennsylvania.
    Reviewed by Dania Trippi

     

  • Graeber, David.
    Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia.
    Reviewed by Jackson Giovanni Saieva

     

  • Ina, Satsuki.
    The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest.
    Reviewed by Christine Hoo

     

  • MacDonnell, Francis.
    Policing Show Business:
    J. Edgar Hoover, the Hollywood Blacklist, and Cold War Movies
    .
    Reviewed by Ben Wainscott

     

  • Nolan, Rachel.
    Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala.
    Reviewed by Isabel Carson

     

  • Olsson, Tore C.
    Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past.
    Reviewed by Fergus O’Connor

     

  • Polanco, Edward Anthony.
    Healing like Our Ancestors:
    The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660
    .
    Reviewed by Brianna Sparks

     

  • Pomerantsev, Peter.
    How To Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.
    Reviewed by Kolin McVeigh

     

  • Prentice, David L.
    Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam.
    Reviewed by Brianna Sparks

     

  • Schultz, Kevin M.
    Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History.
    Reviewed by Colin Ashe

     

  • Sheehan-Dean, Aaron.
    Fighting with the Past:
    How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
    .
    Reviewed by Arjun Kraft

     

  • Van Nguyen, Dean.
    Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur.
    Reviewed by Lauren Eissing

Exhibitions
Films/Docs/TV Shows/Podcasts
Games
  • Heritage House.
    Fullerton Arboretum, California.
    Reviewed by Jeffrey McMurry

     

  • World of the Terracotta Warriors:
    New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century
    .
    Bowers Museum, California.
    Reviewed by Parker Maisterra

  • 20 Days in Mariupol [documentary film].
    Directed by Mstyslav Chernov.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Doan

     

  • American Primeval [TV series].
    Directed by Peter Berg.
    Reviewed by Nicholas Murray

     

  • Andor. Seasons 1 and 2 [TV series].
    Created by Tony Gilroy.
    Reviewed by Fergus O’Connor

     

  • Chief of War. Season 1 [TV show].
    Created by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett and Jason Momoa.
    Reviewed by Jade Phillips

     

  • The Chosen. Seasons 1–5 [TV series].
    Directed by Dallas Jenkins.
    Reviewed by Moses Albert Miranda

     

  • Churchill at War [TV documentary series].
    Directed by Malcolm Venville.
    Reviewed by Siennah Cervantes

     

  • Dead to Rights [film].
    Directed by Shen Ao.
    Reviewed by Arjun Kraft

     

  • The Gilded Age. 3 seasons [TV series].
    Created by Julian Fellowes.
    Reviewed by Brenna O’Toole

     

  • Killers of the Flower Moon [film].
    Directed by Martin Scorsese.
    Reviewed by Isabel Carson

     

  • Manhunt [TV series/documentary drama].
    Directed by Carl Franklin, John Dahl, and Eva Sørhaug.
    Reviewed by Kolin McVeigh 

     

  • Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors [TV documentary].
    Directed by James Tovell.
    Reviewed by Omer Zia

     

  • No Other Land [documentary film].
    Directed by Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Doan

     

  • The Order [film].
    Directed by Justin Kurzel.
    Reviewed by Lyann Martinez

     

  • ShĹŤgun [TV series].
    Directed by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks.
    Reviewed by Ali Zaki

     

  • Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War [TV series].
    Directed by Brian Knappenberger.
    Reviewed by Ryan Mize

     

  • When Life Gives You Tangerines [TV series].
    Directed by Kim Won-seok.
    Reviewed by Christine Hoo

     

  • William Tell [film].
    Directed by Nick Hamm.
    Reviewed by Christian M. Hernandez 

  • Assassin’s Creed Shadows [action adventure game].
    Developer: Ubisoft and Ubisoft Quebec.
    Reviewed by Nathaniel Valenzuela

     

  • Fate/Samurai Remnant [action role-playing game].
    Developer: Koei Tecmo, Omega Force, and Type-Moon Studio BB.
    Reviewed by Christopher Quan

     

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II [first-person role-playing game].
    Developer: Warhorse Studios.
    Reviewed by Chase Thomas

     

  • Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties [turn-based strategy video game].
    Developer: Creative Assembly.
    Reviewed by Xavier Nunez-Sundara

© The Welebaethan: A Journal of History. All Rights Reserved. Last Published 08/25/2026.

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