Laws regarding classroom science curricula are examined in Alexander and Harold Gouzoules’s deft history book The Hundred Years’ Trial. The Gouzouleses’ scientific and legal expertise informs this fascinating history, which moves... Read More

Kathleen B. Casey’s cultural survey "The Things She Carried" examines purses, pocketbooks, and handbags not through a fashion lens, but as “fraught but vital object[s]” with fascinating histories. The book’s evocative case... Read More

Cosima Clara Gillhammer’s fresh history text "Light on Darkness" shows how Christian liturgy shaped Western civilization. Beginning with Western European worship during the Middle Ages, the book traces Christian liturgy’s influence... Read More

Philip Kadish’s "The Great White Hoax" is a fresh history of American racial discourse centered on the cynical ways in which fraudulent narratives and outright hoaxes have manipulated public perceptions of race. Told through a series... Read More

Establishing Delaware’s influential place on the Christmas stage across the country, "Delaware at Christmas" is a celebratory history text. The rich, varied features of the holiday season are dissected in Dave Tabler’s studious... Read More

"The End of Meaning" is a sweeping, somber philosophy text that describes a bevy of cultural losses and bemoans the fragility of social conditions for meaning. William A. Sikes’s cultural history book "The End of Meaning" is about... Read More

Focused on woman-centered cigar box labels that gave smokers an opportunity to contemplate “greater, long-lasting values,” "Cigar Box Lithographs Volume VII" is an appealing collector’s guide. With a central theme of notable women,... Read More

Active, engaging, and encyclopedic, the political science text "Rome and America" compares and contrasts two great nations. A grand historical analysis of the similarities between ancient Rome’s republican period and the United States... Read More