This is a unique, refreshing, and even hopeful look at the interplay between faith and government. Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market, by Torkel Brekke, makes the... Read More

The contradiction of Americans’ simultaneous love and hatred of France is placed in proper historical context. With "Shadows of Revolution", historian and journalist David A.... Read More

The dramatic reign (1558-1603) of Queen Elizabeth I, known during her own times as the Virgin Queen, has spawned more than a dozen movies with her being played by the likes of... Read More

The authors’ academic, information-centric approach bolsters the book’s impartiality. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Philip J. Cook and Kristin A. Goss, is... Read More

A skilled historian answers key questions about military strategy during the “war to end all wars.” Peter Hart, Oral Historian of the Imperial War Museum in London, lays out... Read More

Italia. Marvel of Mediterranean marvels. Bootcrafty spellcaster of bewitchment. One visit is never enough, not for the Phoenicians, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, Angevins,... Read More

In the years between 1918 and 1920, influenza swept across the globe, killing at least fifty million people, with more than half a million of them in the United States. What’s... Read More

“Was there any?” was the response of a film historian when Tom Stempel, a professor of cinema, mentioned that he was researching writing in American television. Film and... Read More

“Little by little, the spirit gets broken here,” says Caro Spencer in May Sarton’s novel As We Are Now, describing her life in Twin Elms. Sarton based the nursing home... Read More

Topping the charts in 1762 was the hit Artaxerxes, sung all-in-English by Giusto Tenducci. With a three-octave range, Tenducci was a virtuoso. He also was a castrato. Apparently... Read More

“Nuns defy stereotypes,” says Carole Garibaldi Rogers, whose compelling collection of interviews with ninety-six women religious highlights the dramatic changes that they... Read More

The name unfailingly evokes heroic adventure, dazzling conquests, exotic realms, a tragic early death … but quite what happened after the conqueror’s demise in Babylon, in... Read More