Breaking down what happened during the Great Depression and deriving lessons from it, The Deflation of 1930 is an edifying historical text. John C. Harvey and Mary Keil’s analytical economic history book The Deflation of 1930 is about... Read More

Biblical history stretching from Abraham to Jesus is covered and editorialized upon in "In the Shadow of the Most High", a sweeping, personalized text that also considers Jewish-Christian relations in modernity. Spanning from biblical... Read More

Truth is sought through conversations about logic, epistemology, theories of consciousness, aesthetics, and religion in "Gödel and the Incomplete Proof", a musing philosophical text. In Samuel E. Navarro’s fascinating philosophical... Read More

A primer on the lived history of the theater through an ever-changing cultural landscape, the historical retrospective "It Happened at the Palace" is comprehensive and edifying. Palace Theatre co-owner Stewart F. Lane’s centennial-plus... Read More

Covering a soldier’s service in Iraq in a point-by-point manner, "All Routes Are Amber" is an illuminating memoir. Martin F. Swirko’s candid memoir "All Routes Are Amber" chronicles his military service during the Iraq War. Swirko,... Read More

To the Brink is a revealing historical biography about a Connecticut captain’s seafaring adventures and later legal battles. John and Nancy Lankenau’s edifying biography of Gideon Olmsted, To the Brink, is about how the captain... Read More

Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel’s engrossing history book elucidates the stories of the men surrounding an iconic image. During the Great Depression, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., embarked on the construction of Rockefeller... Read More

Told through images and passed-down memories, Marion Seidemann Fredman’s tense family memoir "A Time to Hide" is about her German Jewish parents’ flight from Nazi persecution. Fredman’s parents, Julius and Grete, met in a synagogue... Read More