"Bravo Zulu" is a passionate collector’s personalized and enthusiastic ode to military aviation history. Vintage aircraft collector and museum founder Jerry Yagen’s memoir-cum-museum guide "Bravo Zulu" concerns his decades-long... Read More

Observing the development of the US as a nation through a single American family, "Legacy" is a personalized, microcosmic history text. "Legacy" is a tale of US history distilled through Scott MacDonald’s family genealogy and the... Read More

In her erudite family memoir "Ghosts in a Photograph", Myrna Kostash searches for her Western Ukrainian grandparents’ histories in Alberta, Canada. Tracing her family back to Tulova in Galicia (now part of Ukraine) in the 1900s through... Read More

At the end of the Cold War, a television producer, Natasha Lance Rogoff, took on the challenge of creating Ulitsa Sezam, a Russian version of Sesame Street. In "Muppets in Moscow", she chronicles the challenges of that endeavor, from... Read More

David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan’s "We’ll Fight It Out Here" covers the historical fight for equal access to health care. In the 1890s, Fredrick Hoffman, the leading statistician of the Progressive Era, wanted to find out why... Read More

One of the greatest rewards of winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine is the authority it bestows on the winner. But in Heroes & Scoundrels, medical historian Moira Dolan encourages healthy skepticism toward pronouncements from medical... Read More

Gary J. Smith recalls how he helped to organize a historic hockey tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union in his memoir "Ice War Diplomat". In 1972, with the Cold War still in full swing, the relationship between Canada and the... Read More

Century’s Witness is Mary Llewellyn McNeil’s behind-the-scenes biography of a respected newsman. One of Wallace Carroll’s greatest gifts as a journalist was his timing. Fresh from journalism school in Milwaukee, he was the first... Read More