Steve Kemper’s splendid portrait of the American ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to World War II will be of interest to a wide range of history lovers.
Caroline Moorehead’s clear, compelling prose and sure-handed grasp of historical events combine to make Mussolini’s Daughter read like a page-turning thriller.
Simon Parkin brings the shameful history of British internment camps during World War II to life in The Island of Extraordinary Captives.
Half American chronicles how Black Americans during World War II had to fight for the right to combat racism abroad because of the racism at home.
Kerri K. Greenidge complicates the accepted history of the abolitionist Grimke sisters with the full, complex story of their Black and white relatives.
Jonathan Freedland tells the story of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jewish person to escape from Auschwitz, with a novelist’s verve.
Nicole Eustace brings the colonial era to life as she examines the murder of a Seneca man in 1722 Pennsylvania.
Toil and Trouble examines the ways in which women throughout history have found agency, self-expression, financial gain and political influence in witchcraft.
J.W. Ocker emphasizes the lively lore surrounding Bigfoot creatures, et al., and how these tales both shape and are shaped by their mythical subjects’ supposed stomping grounds.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks gives us a new way to understand the civil rights movement in his illuminating Waging a Good War.
Kristina R. Gaddy’s captivating book reveals the African history of a quintessential American instrument: the banjo.
An appreciation for the dead, as well as for history, drives Greg Melville as he explores America’s cemeteries in Over My Dead Body.
Chief speechwriter for the Obama administration Cody Keenan offers a unique perspective on the unimaginably intense ten days that shaped his boss’s legacy.
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