Utilizing archival records, court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other historical sources, the engrossing true crime book "Springtime for Sophie" delves into a violent murder and the subsequent trial. Richard H. Underwood’s... Read More

"The First Fascist" is Sergio Luzzatto’s absorbing biography of the Marquis de Morès, covering how he came to lead an antisemitic movement in the late 1800s that was later defined as fascist. The French son of former Italian nobility... Read More

A murder in the Reconstruction-era South is excavated in Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs’s history book "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw". Following the conclusion of the Civil War, small-town citizens in places like Graham, North... Read More

In Michael L. Satlow’s rigorous religious study, the daily practices of Late Antiquity faiths, set in a world alive with the supernatural, reveal the shared experiences of human beings negotiating the divine realm. Focusing on Late... Read More

"Imperial Religious Policy from Constantine to Theodosius I" is a concise but thorough history of Ancient Rome’s transition into a Christian empire. Ferdinando Emilio Abbate’s meticulous monograph "Imperial Religious Policy from... Read More

Progressing at the taut pace of an espionage novel, "Fighting Back" is the engrossing biography of a defiant, passionate Jewish American soldier. Jeffrey and Craig Weiss’s gripping biography "Fighting Back" explores the brief yet... Read More

The twin victories at Pensacola and Yorktown would not have been possible without the influence of a particular Spanish royal commissioner, suggests the thorough biography Francisco de Saavedra’s American Revolutionary War. James... Read More

The personalized political science treatise "A Frog-in-the-Well Solution: The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict" introduces a complex and historically attuned plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War. Doc Ngu’s "A Frog-in-the-Well Solution: The... Read More