Julian Borger’s illuminating, elegiac memoir "I Seek a Kind Person" traces his search for his Viennese father’s wartime history. In 1983, Borger’s father, Robert, committed suicide. Borger, a journalist, later discovered an... Read More

Randall Fuller’s history book "Bright Circle" reveals the often-overlooked women at the heart of Transcendentalism. Focusing on the lives and works of a handful of extraordinary minds—Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,... Read More

The history of the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-government is at the center of Nicole F. Watts’s riveting book "Republic of Dreams". The modern countries of the Middle East were created when the Age of Empires came to an end... Read More

In "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told", Keith Richotte Jr. examines the legal history behind the federal government’s assertions of authority over almost six hundred tribal nations. This book exposes the fascinating, paradoxical way... Read More

Steeped in original archival research, Isaac Stanley-Becker’s "Europe without Borders" explores the complicated history of the campaign for a united, borderless Europe. After the horrors of World War II, leaders from Western Europe... Read More

"Toi Te Mana" is a definitive survey of Māori art written by three Māori scholars and artists—Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis, and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. The assumption of art history—that an artwork is more than a beautiful object;... Read More

"Never Home" is a sensitive photographic homage to those who died in World Wars I and II. Photographer and navy veteran Richard Sherman’s moving photography collection "Never Home" is about the sacrifices of US citizens and allies who... Read More

A work of in-depth reflection that fills a gap in the historical record, "The English Trip of 1910" places a reserve regiment’s international tour in its cultural context. Detailed as it recounts volunteer military efforts against the... Read More