Nick Rennison’s history text "1922" peers a century into the past, when the world was emerging from a deadly pandemic and facing new kinds of social upheaval. Told via a few dozen short essays about important events around the world,... Read More

Shannen Dee Williams’s "Subversive Habits" is an awe-inspiring history book about Black nuns who fought for freedom and equality. The first comprehensive history of Black Catholic sisters in the United States, this book reveals the... Read More

In the graphic novel "The Lions of Leningrad", Russian adolescents fight to survive German attacks, starvation, and Joseph Stalin’s iron-fisted rule. Following a gunshot at a Leningrad concert in 1962, a man is arrested. He recounts... Read More

In his compelling interpretive biography "Robespierre", Marcel Gauchet reveals his subject as a complex man who was both an advocate for democracy, and a murderous tyrant with the potential to destroy democracy. Gauchet traces... Read More

"Unanswered Questions" is a compendium of still unresolved queries into the events of September 11, 2001. Ray McGinnis’s journalistic text "Unanswered Questions" investigates lingering doubts about the official accounts of the... Read More

Roman historians have cast Hannibal Barca as a cruel, uncouth barbarian, but Philip Freeman’s panoramic biography "Hannibal" supplies evidence that the great Carthaginian military leader, whose strategic and tactical genius has been... Read More

A Soldier’s Heart is an affecting memoir about the traumas that war inflicts. Raynold A. Gauvin’s memoir A Soldier’s Heart is about the trauma that followed his military service in Vietnam. For Gauvin, the Vietnam War had a lasting... Read More

"Retaliation of the Cursed" is an engrossing comparative analysis of the histories of world religions. Stephen Arthur Martin Jr.’s religious history text "Retaliation of the Cursed" is an exhaustive exploration of world religions. The... Read More