Covering a soldier’s service in Iraq in a point-by-point manner, "All Routes Are Amber" is an illuminating memoir. Martin F. Swirko’s candid memoir "All Routes Are Amber" chronicles his military service during the Iraq War. Swirko,... Read More

To the Brink is a revealing historical biography about a Connecticut captain’s seafaring adventures and later legal battles. John and Nancy Lankenau’s edifying biography of Gideon Olmsted, To the Brink, is about how the captain... Read More

Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel’s engrossing history book elucidates the stories of the men surrounding an iconic image. During the Great Depression, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., embarked on the construction of Rockefeller... Read More

Told through images and passed-down memories, Marion Seidemann Fredman’s tense family memoir "A Time to Hide" is about her German Jewish parents’ flight from Nazi persecution. Fredman’s parents, Julius and Grete, met in a synagogue... Read More

Lauren Johnson’s vibrant biography of Margaret Beaufort ably reveals the mother and grandmother of English kings. “Without Margaret Beaufort, we would have had no Henry VII, no Henry VIII and therefore no Tudor dynasty,” Johnson... Read More

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons’s intricate, illuminating history text "The Sons of Gunshooter" is about Diné life, family lineages, and legal history. Drawing on extensive archival research, tribal records, and generational... Read More

Photographer Virginia Mcgee Richards documentary text "The Inner Passage" shows how history altered a region and its people over centuries. The Inner Passage, introduced here as a series of canals and rivers along the coastline of South... Read More

Mark A. Johnson’s thorough history text "American Bacon" situates bacon as a defining element of American identity. The book utilizes archival evidence, historical works, and interviews to explore the trajectory of bacon in American... Read More