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Delaware at Christmas

by Ryan Prado

Establishing Delaware’s influential place on the Christmas stage across the country, "Delaware at Christmas" is a celebratory history text. The rich, varied features of the holiday season are dissected in Dave Tabler’s studious... Read More

Book Review

The End of Meaning

by pine breaks

"The End of Meaning" is a sweeping, somber philosophy text that describes a bevy of cultural losses and bemoans the fragility of social conditions for meaning. William A. Sikes’s cultural history book "The End of Meaning" is about... Read More

Book Review

Rome and America

by Willem Marx

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

Book Review

Before Gender

by Meredith Grahl Counts

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

Book Review

The Third Reich of Dreams

by Willem Marx

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

Book Review

Sedition

by Jeff Fleischer

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

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