If you were born in the 1960s or earlier you probably remember the exploding deathtrap known as the Ford Pinto. Robert Dewar worked for Ford as an auto plant foreman during the Pinto’s production. According to Dewar this vehicle’s... Read More

No matter how the next four years go Barack Obama’s name will represent for future generations a turning point in American politics. As the first black president of the United States he holds a vital place in history and his name will... 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 activities of the Dillinger gang during their final year and... Read More

“True adventures come without safety nets,” writes award-winning journalist Lucinda Fleeson as she trades her staid East coast life for a Hawaiian adventure. Fleeson moves to Kauai to serve as fundraiser for the National Tropical... Read More

“The great myth of war is that it can be left behind,” Catherine Whitney observes in this stirring, yet sadly familiar story about her brother, Jim Schuler. Retired Staff Sergeant Schuler lived through three years in Vietnam, but he... Read More

From the deserts of central Asia to the bustling streets of Istanbul and New York this memoir is a striking and lovingly crafted story of a life and career which spans the twentieth century. The narrative opens with Bektore’s... Read More

Alicia Lutz Rolow has been a flight attendant for over three decades and she is angry. Not about her job—she loves her work the places she travels and the people she meets—but because she believes the corporate defenders of the... Read More

In the United States they are known as members of the “Greatest Generation”: those young men who donned uniforms and sailed off to fight the Axis nearly seven decades ago. Their stories are heroic and legendary told in histories like... Read More