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.
After finishing Kevin Hazzard’s memorable account of America’s first paramedics, readers will never hear an ambulance siren the same way again.
In American Rascal, Greg Steinmetz tells robber baron Jay Gould’s rags-to-riches story and gives a nuanced view of why he matters to American history.
Hugh Eakin’s rapturous storytelling makes Picasso’s War a spellbinding, page-turning read about the fight to bring Picasso’s work to America.
In 17 original essays, U.S. veterans share their reasons for deciding to serve, why they became disillusioned with the military and why they now feel the need to speak out against its misguided policies.
Humanity glimmers throughout Eve Fairbanks’ portrait of South Africa’s turbulent apartheid history.
Linda Villarosa‘s wonderfully written book makes stunning points about the health risks of racism amid moving narratives of real people‘s experiences.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras makes the recent history of Columbia immediate, personal and magical, with prose that in itself is enchantingly poetic.
The history of Abraham Lincoln and his enthrallment with spiritualism has never been more surprising than in Terry Alford‘s In the Houses of Their Dead.
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