An enchanting photograph of an Indigenous girl centers Martha A. Sandweiss’s history book "The Girl in the Middle", a tale of westward expansion. In 1868, Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner arranged the peace commissioners of... Read More

The insider’s history "Bandwidth" filters the meteoric rise, fall, and resurgence of fiber-optic telecommunication companies through the lenses of industry leaders. Part memoir, part technology history, Dan Caruso’s "Bandwidth" is... Read More

Evan Rail follows the trail of a clever and creative fraudster in "The Absinthe Forger", an engrossing true crime story. The word “absinthe” alone is enough to conjure images of tortured artists, fin de siècle decadence, and... Read More

Powerful and informative, Rena Steinzor’s "American Apocalypse" examines the history, motives, and momentum of six powerful groups aligned with the far right: corporations, the Tea Party, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white... Read More