Thousands of spectators around the world enjoyed the exciting performances of Native Americans dressed in authentic-looking garb at popular Wild West shows during their thirty-year reign, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. But few... Read More

The last presidential election in which over 60 percent of Americans voted occurred in 1964; not even the most compelling issues have motivated greater participation in this most basic democratic right. Predictions of voter turnout for... Read More

Married love, the simple satisfactions of daily routines and habits around the home and garden, light and darkness, and ruminations about aging and dying give this third collection by Michael Millar substance and form. There are also... Read More

This unconventional historical novel set during the Russian Revolution focuses on Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, and not her more famous husband. Nadya is already committed to the revolution when she meets Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the... Read More

Lifelong runner Ed Ayres uses the John F. Kennedy fifty-mile ultramarathon as a backdrop for his new book, The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance. Throughout it we run alongside the... Read More

When Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, a bill that allowed slavery to extend into the western territories by popular sovereignty, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts seethed in outrage, fearful that Kansas would enter... Read More

Neither a murder mystery nor a thriller, "Treachery in Bordeaux" is, as its name implies, about treachery. In this first of a planned series of mysteries set in the Bordeaux region of France, we meet Benjamin Cooker, a renowned vintner... Read More

Author and documentary photographer Paola Gianturco’s "Grandmother Power" celebrates a newly formalized global phenomenon: inspired by love and compassion, strong and courageous grandmothers are creating a worldwide movement to ensure... Read More