New perspectives on how history is made
Mr. Jefferson's University made "Animal House" look tame.
Towards a revival of Midwestern history.
Schneider is a scholar of Latin American history, but that's not what she reads in her spare time.
How hippie music became a bastion of "hip capitalism."
The first of no doubt many dissections of the Edward Snowden saga.
The greatest comeback in American political history?
Black college football, civil rights -- and publisher's hype.
A strikingly relevant book for the modern age.
Reporting for the republic.
A riveting account of the 1968 spy ship capture that nearly brought the U.S. and North Korea to the brink of war.
(Re)introducing a founder of conservatism.
Inside the narrow, dogmatic world of the Dulles brothers, the architects of America's Cold War.
Why isn't William Wyler mentioned in the same breath as Alfred Hitchcock or John Ford?
An epic history, thematic as well as narrative, engineered into a tensile 300 pages.
Seymour Hersh remains the true giant of investigative journalism.
Walter Nugent's "The Tolerant Populists" has just been reissued in time for its fiftieth anniversary.
School reform is not merely complicated, it's complex. And context matters.
A stirring biography of T.E. Lawrence, yes, but also a thoughtful examination of Western imperialism and Mideast politics.
A landmark study emphasizes continuity, not change, since 1970.
Shedding a light on the radical reality of politics in the '70s and '80s.
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