Mark A. Johnson’s thorough history text "American Bacon" situates bacon as a defining element of American identity. The book utilizes archival evidence, historical works, and interviews to explore the trajectory of bacon in American... Read More

The detailed family memoir "Inheritance" goes to great lengths to tell remarkable World War II stories of resilience and courage. Charlie Scheidt’s immersive memoir "Inheritance" concerns a family’s tumultuous World War II past.... Read More

The harrowing memoir "Blue Skies, Troubled Waters" recalls the brutal World War II military occupation of Indonesia. Martha Walandouw Lohn’s eye-opening historical memoir "Blue Skies, Troubled Waters" is about being a civilian child... Read More

"Politics, Gangs, and Vodou" is a philosophical political science study about how Haiti’s origins in a mass rebellion impact the nation in the present. Yvon Milien’s political science study "Politics, Gangs, and Vodou" investigates... Read More

Utilizing archival records, court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other historical sources, the engrossing true crime book "Springtime for Sophie" delves into a violent murder and the subsequent trial. Richard H. Underwood’s... Read More

"The First Fascist" is Sergio Luzzatto’s absorbing biography of the Marquis de Morès, covering how he came to lead an antisemitic movement in the late 1800s that was later defined as fascist. The French son of former Italian nobility... Read More

A murder in the Reconstruction-era South is excavated in Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs’s history book "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw". Following the conclusion of the Civil War, small-town citizens in places like Graham, North... Read More

In Michael L. Satlow’s rigorous religious study, the daily practices of Late Antiquity faiths, set in a world alive with the supernatural, reveal the shared experiences of human beings negotiating the divine realm. Focusing on Late... Read More