"White Lies Matter" is a unique artistic investigation into often-repeated lies about American history. In concert with digital art, the short essays of John A. O’Connor’s "White Lies Matter" convey histories of inequality and... Read More

"First Patients" is a captivating medical history that centers the patients whose bravery made today’s scientific advancements possible. Rod Tanchanco’s "First Patients" is an engaging history of medicine that delves into the human... Read More

"Keeping Each Other Alive" is an engrossing soldier’s memoir about experiences during the Vietnam War. Norman Hile’s memoir "Keeping Each Other Alive" covers his tour of duty in Vietnam. Hile was a soldier during Vietnam; his book... Read More

"The Anderson Letters" compiles intriguing missives sent between a Swedish family and the first of their kin to emigrate from their home. Composed of letters between its members, Wayne Aarestad’s family biography "The Anderson Letters"... Read More

About the history, fantasies, projections, and outright lies that have formed Western civilization’s concepts of what’s good, true, and beautiful, Bernd Brunner’s panoramic cultural text "Extreme North" shows that the vast, frozen... Read More

Chad Orzel traces how human concepts of time have changed over millennia in "A Brief History of Timekeeping". Today, “what time is it?” is a basic question with an accessible answer: all one has to do is look at a clock. But the... Read More

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