Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
Author Thom Hatch promises mind-blowing new revelations in his book on the Battle of Little Bighorn. And in other news, Rutherford B. Hayes is rumored to be contemplating a run for president.
Read MoreA fantastic new book tells the story of President Washington and the extraordinary team he assembled to form the new nation's first administration
Read MoreThe daughter of the first President Roosevelt and the wife of the second President Roosevelt had a long and sometimes cross-purposed relationship. A new book dishes the old dirt.
Read MoreThe clashes of the Cold War weren't just matters of missiles and border guards; they also enlisted honey-voiced broadcasters, drunken novelists, and bookish magazine editors, as a fascinating new book makes clear
Read MoreTwo-time National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft kept a low profile (and a negligible paper trail) throughout a lifetime in Washington power-dealing; a compelling new book profiles the ultimate Oval Office insider
Read MoreTwo years before he gained fame in the most painful way imaginable at the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer led a large expedition into the Black Hills sacred to the Sioux - in search of gold
Read MoreA paradigm-shifting new book looks at the turbulent decade of the 1970s in United States politics and the re-shaping of the world
Read MoreFrom the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry
Read MoreA lively, authoritative new book examines one of the darkest stains on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Read MoreDecade after decade, one man has worked at the heart of the Pentagon, advising a long string of presidents and cabinet ministers about the role of American power in the world. A new book brings his story out of the shadows.
Read MoreA new history presents a history of 20th-Century American radical evangelism that will go down very well on the Liberty University campus
Read MoreA fiery new history seeks to reclaim the lost honor of both Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
Read MoreA new book looks at the family lives of five Virginian grandees during the American Revolution era
Read MoreFrom Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower to Reagan and beyond - a new book tells the raucous and problematic history of the American Republican Party
Read MoreA spry new history re-examines all the forces that converged to compel the separation between the British Empire and the American colonies
Read MoreThe complicated history of the American Revolution gets its best examination in a generation in Thomas Slaughter's new book
Read MoreThe darkly iconic Last Stand of George Armstrong Custer receives an exuberantly detailed new account
Read MoreA new dual-biography of James Madison and his wife Dolley sees them through some of fledgling America's most trying times
Read MoreThe image of Abraham Lincoln - the saintly, martyred Great Emancipator - is a permanent fixture of human culture … but a fascinating new book takes a detailed look at the men who carefully crafted that image
Read MoreFresh from chasing horse-thieves in wild Dakota territories, a rail-tough Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City to face bandits of quite another sort - the Tammany Hall sort. A lean new history tells the great story.
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