“It was a time when cultures were colliding and destiny intertwined the lives of men together in unique complex patterns of life” Garcia writes. In this detailed novel which takes place in mid-nineteenth-century America Josh Taylor... Read More

Rights and Racism: Even as Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan was defending Plessy vs. Ferguson, he couldn’t stomach extending civil rights for everyone. “There is a race so different from our own,” he wrote in the landmark... Read More

The Old West as seen in the Arizona Territory was becoming more like the settled East in the 1890s as the Reservation system took hold. Gunslingers heroic marshals and footloose cowboys were increasingly outnumbered by the... Read More

According to legend, the first marathoner, Pheidippides, ran from the Greek town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Greeks had defeated the Persians; also according to legend, he promptly fell down dead. Today, millions of... Read More

The reader of this sci-fi mystery mixed with a dollop of metaphysical yearnings better have a good memory for names. The book starts off with a list of 32 characters (oops make that 44 considering that 12 of them have two names!). As the... Read More

After she was lost for ten hours on the snow-covered prairie, the author tells about finally making it home: “I fed the cattle close to the corral. It worried me. It seemed as though I always had worried as long as I had to be around... Read More

One day in the mid-1970s a group of tabloid writers and editors were drinking at a dingy Chicago bar. They worked for the National News Extra, the tabloid that on Dec. 8, 1974 published the headline that gave this book its title. They... Read More

Despite misogyny, patriarchy, and the established social mores of the pre- and post-Civil War South, there are women, whose lives are detailed in Negotiating Boundaries, who lived to the fullest extent possible in the space dictated by... Read More