Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

Journalist Yazan Al-Saadi’s comics collaboration "Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches" delivers moment-in-time reports from the Middle East. Beginning with the Lebanese uprisings in October of 2019, the book unfolds events day by... Read More

Set against cultural and generational tensions in the American South, historian Timothy Silver’s gritty true crime book "Death in Briar Bottom" covers a 1972 incident involving free-living hippies, conservative law enforcement... Read More

Measuring facts against fictions, the literary criticism–based biography "Mr. Poe and Dr. Moran" busts myths about Poe’s lifestyle and places his legacy in the context of US history. Dwight Thomas’s biographical inquiry "Mr. Poe... Read More

Moving at the engrossing pace of a novel, "Caught in the Turmoil of History" is an illuminating family biography. With a timeline sprawling from the late nineteenth century to the Cold War, Ivana Caccia and Maroje Mihovilović’s... Read More

Taking the form of a dialogue between the past and the present, the social science inquiry "Africa" addresses topics including education, equality, ethnicity and race, epistemology, and history. An impassioned quest to uncover the hidden... Read More

A significant resource for collectors, "Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume VI" focuses on cigar box label depictions of Native Americans. Written by a collector of cigar boxes since the 1950s, Charles J. Humber’s "Cigar Box Lithographs... Read More

Alternative Schools in British Columbia, 1960–1975 is a comprehensive and cogent history of a movement that prompted progressive changes in Canadian education. Harley Rothstein reviews the birth, decline, and legacy of the alternative... Read More