“Hope is…an essential element of our spiritual lifeblood. And it is the best medicine for overcoming feelings of helplessness, alienation, and fear. Individuals who are... Read More

Though John Dillinger’s story is a familiar one, Elliot J. Gorn seeks a less traditional route in its retelling. Using government documents and newspapers, Gorn describes the... Read More

Controversy has tailed the theory of evolution ever since the publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species in 1859. As recently as 2004, National Geographic magazine... Read More

For better or for worse, the 1828 presidential election remains the model for all campaigns that followed. The election pitted incumbent John Quincy Adams against Andrew... Read More

It sounds like the plot for a thriller by someone like Robert Ludlum. In 1931 Germany, Nazi thugs shoot and wound several men at a dance hall. The incident triggers three months... Read More

“I fear that the Gospel has been humiliated in our time,” Marsh writes. In this critique of the American evangelical movement, the author argues that the “self-serving and... Read More

Lynne Viola, professor of history at Toronto University and a highly respected historian of the Soviet Union of the 1930s, has written a searing book on an immense and all too... Read More

“As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world,” said Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1901. “If we lose India, we shall drop straightaway to a... Read More

“I have to state that Philology, both Comparative and special, has been my favourite pursuit,” said James Murray. Never before or since has an army of amateurs produced so... Read More

“I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous,” declared Sterne, and in bursting onto the London literary scene in 1760, with the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram... Read More

Few English writers offer as much mystery and magic as Daniel Defoe, and very few can match his output, which ranges from Robinson Crusoe—the very stuff of escapism and... Read More

The musical theater in England and America has changed radically since the days of Rodgers and Hart. Spectacles like Evita and A Little Night Music barely resemble earlier works... Read More