Blackburn’s prose is simply exquisite—every word weighty, every sentence stripped of excess, with all remaining wonderfully descriptive. Venita Blackburn makes an indelible... Read More

Each chapter is poignant, with moments that are eerie, playful, haunting, and mournful. A portrait of vulnerability and of the tenuous connections between people, Melissa... Read More

Major League Baseball has gone to war with itself—the Black Sox gambling scandal, collective-bargaining negotiations in the late 1960s, steroid use—and also against Germany... Read More

Veteran sports journalist Jim Moriarty has a talent for getting at the heart of golf. For more than three decades, Jim Moriarty has followed the world’s best golfers around... Read More

Historian Robert M. Dienesch’s latest work is an intriguing and incisive study of the transformational period in American history when the federal government retooled defense... Read More

The South’s defeat was inevitable when, on a chilly Sunday April 3 morning in 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s prayers at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in... Read More

Rich portraits of the people who were displaced when the Shenandoah National Park was created are both heartrending and ironic. Each year, a million tourists traverse the... Read More

It could be alleged—no insult intended—that Tim Grove, who has worked in the most prestigious history museums in the United State, is a rewriter of history. Take the case of... Read More

Heartbreakingly honest, authentically mature, Evans’s memoir is a testament to survival through loss and grief. Stanford fellow and poet John W. Evans delivers a memoir of... Read More

Wishart ensures that a period of Great Plains settlement, struggle, and abandonment will not be forgotten. In "The Last Days of the Rainbelt", geography professor David J.... Read More

This informative account delves into the personalities who brought the fitness trend to America. In "Making the American Body", Jonathan Black masterfully explores the many... Read More

There’s enough history of psychoanalysis here for the layman to wrap his head around. In Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America, Lawrence R. Samuel... Read More