Josiah Thompson’s reconsideration of the John F. Kennedy assassination, "Last Second in Dallas", includes compelling assessments of the existing evidence, but also... Read More

A geologist celebrates the beauty of a park and exposes threats it faces. In "Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park", Colorado State University geology professor... Read More

Supreme Court Schooling: The Little Rock, Arkansas, school desegregation crisis pitted nine African-American youths against Orval Faubus, the stubborn and deceitful Arkansas... Read More

Presidential Procession: The anecdotal journalistic accounts of presidential elections written by the late Theodore White, and Jack Germond, and Jules Witcover belong to an... Read More

“If you had to pick a moment when it all began to rot,” says Michael Scott, whose father is the subject of this page-turning nonfiction thriller about the CIA in the fifties... Read More

The 1972 presidential election, a landslide but short-lived victory for President Richard Nixon, was a crushing loss for Democratic standard-bearer George McGovern and for his... Read More

With the exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, no other first lady has stirred as much controversy as Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author says she has “been bolstered by her friends,... Read More

Embattled Espionage: Although the Cold War is often assumed to have begun after World War II, during the anticommunist purge inflamed by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, the... Read More

Before Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover was the president that Americans loved to hate. Clements, an environmental historian at the University of South Carolina, demonstrates that... Read More