New perspectives on how history is made
Contemplating America's complicity in the genocide of Bengali Hindus.
How Israel built bridges with its worst enemies.
A provocative approach to religion, pedagogy, and history.
A biography fit for the author of the seminal six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.
Was the 1940 presidential election the most important in American history?
A musical memoir with a few too many silent notes.
How vegetarianism began and spread in the United States.
The latest chronicle of the Indian diaspora ventures into the realm of radical politics.
Despite omissions, this is a valuable study of Lee Harvey Oswald's psyche.
Early American colleges were saturated by slavery.
Hollywood war films from Vietnam to Iraq.
A lesson of worldly hope -- if we could only work up the will to believe it.
Fifty top Nazis and their American shrink.
A notorious FOX interview can't obscure the value of a book whose utility outstrips its limits.
America needs more investigative reporters like Dan Moldea.
Gore Vidal’s forgotten rival.
A prize-winning novelist (once again) resurrects the spirit of the Irish diaspora
The measured prose of Tom Perrotta in these short stories of suburbia has never been sharper.
Women victims in Stalin's Russia.
A president and a presidency transformed?
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