Jeremiah Greenfield, soon to be presidential candidate, was having a terrible day. In Job-like succession, he loses his job, wife, wealthy patron, and almost his life. The odds for success were never very good for Jeremiah: as a child,... Read More

Before Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover was the president that Americans loved to hate. Clements, an environmental historian at the University of South Carolina, demonstrates that Hoover’s failed conservation policies during the... Read More

In 1966, President Johnson embarked on an Asian trip to seek support for his Vietnam policies. Donovan, who covered the mission as Washington Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times, was volunteered by Johnson to box a kangaroo while the... Read More

Theodore Roosevelt accused President McKinley of having “no more backbone than a chocolate éclair” because he viewed the President as being overly cautious about committing American troops to war with Spain. Yet, as Armstrong, a... Read More

Political pundits frequently attribute an election loss or victory to a “regrettable gaffe, the brilliant maneuver, the key endorsement or the bungled strategic move.” Although images of Reagan’s “there-you-go-again” put down... Read More

The abundant fictional accounts and memoirs by and about those who served in America’s most divisive conflict other than the Civil War illustrate the war’s still raging impact on veterans and their families. Probably no other war... Read More

“It may not have been a popular war and the outcome may have been disastrous, but I’m proud to have been an American soldier serving my country,” says Linda S. Earle, a member of the Woman’s Army Corps during Vietnam, and one of... Read More

Libraries as repositories of civilizations? records have existed for five thousand years, since the origination of Sumerian cuneiform writing. This abridgement of the author’s The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to... Read More