Before a vaccine existed, polio hit many communities with disability and death. This is the scenario described in Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir, a new book by Jerry Apps. Growing up on a farm in central Wisconsin,... Read More

No magazine covered the bloody and turbulent events of the civil rights movement more faithfully than Jet. Years before the brutal treatment of blacks was acknowledged in the white mainstream press, Jet, according to comedian and... Read More

Throughout history, there have been great men and women, wars, tragedies, and triumphs—and seemingly always someone willing to preserve the memories of such. Whether the collector’s objective is for money and resale, obsession with... Read More

“If I am ever set free. What then? Will I crash into walls forever like a blind butterfly? Will my wings be so torn and ragged that I will be forced to limp through the rest of my life?” In "Secret Storms", Julie Mannix von Zerneck... Read More

In his debut collection, Ron Parsons mines the northernmost region of the American Midwest, mapping the lives of those bound to the beautiful and hard area by love, family, duty, and sometimes simply by snow. Parsons is concerned with... Read More

From slick covered stacks of capes and masks a boy begins the walk to school with ganglions blitzing comic book kinetics. One step bat, one step spider, fists popping claws, carrying shields and totem boomerangs, he walks the rooftop... Read More

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was founded in the early 1980s by politically conservative law students who considered mainstream legal thought in America too liberal. Though it started as a student organization... Read More

A double biography about two young women coming of age during the turbulent Revolutionary War, neither of whom knew each other, might have presented a disjointed and confusing narrative for the reader. But in this heavily researched... Read More