Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s "Deliberate Evil" is about a true crime from long ago: the upper-class murder that shook Salem, Massachusetts in the 1830s. That spooky setting is fleshed out with lots of literary references, enriching the... Read More

Crawford Gribben’s sweeping history surveys Ireland’s grand past—and its importance for Western Christianity. Here, religion is presented as a moving force within Irish history, which is divided into five key movements: conversion,... Read More

"The Murders of Moisés Ville" covers gruesome murders in a fledgling Jewish community in late-nineteenth-century Argentina. Alongside its details of the crimes, the book chronicles Javier Sinay’s research experiences into them in... Read More

“Paleontology is one of the most familiar and accessible of all sciences,” Roy Plotnick proclaims. Why? Dinosaurs, of course. Drawn in as children, a lucky few get the chance to make a career out of serendipitous fossil discoveries.... Read More

Anneliese Abbott’s "Malabar Farm" chronicles the significant history of what was once a small private farm, and is now a state park, recreation area, working farm, and living history site. In the uncertain period before World War II,... Read More

Chocolate Runs Through My Veins is a riveting historical investigation into how the worlds of women and cocoa intersected. Connie Spenuzza’s revelatory feminist history Chocolate Runs Through My Veins covers the agriculture,... Read More

In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass... Read More

Crossing nations and historical periods, the memoir "Chopin through the Window" covers both unimaginable and everyday challenges. Franziska I. Stein’s eloquent memoir "Chopin through the Window" concerns hardships endured in the... Read More