In Dress Codes, Richard Thompson Ford has created a thorough and well-thought-out history of fashion from a legal and societal perspective.
Set during an era when being Black and accused of a crime was almost a guaranteed death sentence, A Shot in the Moonlight reads like a riveting thriller.
The Eagles of Heart Mountain is a timely examination of how the policy of Japanese incarceration impacted the lives of young people and their families.
The Crooked Path to Abolition is richly rewarding and helps us see the full context of political decisions that put slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.
In 1939, Hans Lichtenstein’s mother put him on a train from Berlin to England. In 2015, he and his son Jonathan returned to Berlin in search of peace.
In her absorbing biography of elusive author Louise Fitzhugh, Leslie Brody succeeds admirably in reconstructing Fitzhugh’s complicated, often troubled life.
In his enlightening Ruin and Renewal, Paul Betts shows how efforts to “civilize” the devastated postwar regions of Europe influenced much of our world today.
Homeira Qaderi’s searing memoir Dancing in the Mosque tells the story of one woman who could not conform to the strictures of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
This record of cat history is written in the voice of Baba, a talented tabby, and includes full-color photographs of her in period dress.
In The Light Ages, Seb Falk uses the story of John Westwyk, a 14th-century monk, to explore the scientific explosion that occurred well before the Renaissance.
In Ed Ceasar’s The Moth and the Mountain, some answers to the mystery of climber Maurice Wilson remain shrouded in the mists of Mt. Everest.
An illuminating history of racism in America, White Fright reveals how white anxieties around sexuality shaped the Black experience of social injustice.
Operation Moonglow shows that the Apollo moon landing mission was the single most successful U.S. diplomatic effort of the late 20th century.
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