Active, engaging, and encyclopedic, the political science text "Rome and America" compares and contrasts two great nations. A grand historical analysis of the similarities between ancient Rome’s republican period and the United States... Read More

Boyhood doubts and curiosities form the compelling, intimate foundation of "The Conspiracy of the Christ", a theological memoir that dissects texts and asks in-the-weeds questions about religion. Michael LaFond’s... Read More

There have always been transgender people, shows Eli Erlick’s dynamic biographical collection "Before Gender", about thirty trans individuals of the past. This riveting, compassionate collection of life stories uses a process of... Read More

A singular window into the horror of life in Nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt’s anthropological study addresses the dreams that she and her fellow German citizens began having after Adolf Hitler came to power. A haunting approach to the... Read More

Publishing at a time of constitutional crisis at the federal level, Marcus Alexander Gadson’s book "Sedition" takes an in-depth look at how earlier violent crises played a key part in shaping and altering the constitutions of... Read More

A fascinating history of the nineteenth-century frenzy surrounding an exotic flower, "The Lost Orchid" is about Victorian imperialism, ecological devastation, and climate change. The “Queen of the Orchids” is rare and beautiful, with... Read More

Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs... Read More

Swift and concise, the biography "Out of the Tub" reintroduces William Howard Taft as a president worth celebrating. Carol A. Josel’s "Out of the Tub" is a compact yet revelatory biography of William Howard Taft, the only president of... Read More