Book Review: The Anglo-Saxon World
/A wonderfully-illutrated new volume brings together the latest research about the glittering era that brought us the Sutton Hoo treasure, the epic of Beowulf, and the deep sediment of law
Read MoreBook Review: 1940
/A spirited new account of the divisive American presidential election race that was held amidst the growing clamor of European war
Read MoreBook Review: Gettysburg - The Last Invasion
/In a magnificent new history, the cataclysmic turning-point battle of the American Civil War is studied in meticulous detail
Read MoreBook Review: Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor
/Richard Beeman's new book covers some familiar - sacred? - ground
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Long Road to Antietam
/The bloodiest day in United States history is the subject of Richard Slotkin's riveting book, now out in paperback
Read MoreClassics Reissued: On Exile
/The signature work by one of the prickly fathers of the Italian Renaissance humanism gets its inaugural print edition in the latest offering from Harvard's magnificent I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreBook Review: Through the Perilous Fight
/In a stirring new account of the burning of the White House and the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, the individual men and women of the conflict step into the spotlight in all their very human contradictions
Read MoreBook Review: The Guns at Last Light
/A historian's great trilogy about U.S. forces at war on WWII's Western front at last comes to its finish
Read MoreBook Review: The Plantagenets
/Using castles and cunning, swords and statesmanship, guile and guts, they ruled England (and big chunks of France) for over two centuries - they were the Plantagenets, and they're the subject of a boisterous new history
Read MoreBook Review: Global Crisis
/The 17th century found itself caught between widespread social upheaval and natural catastrophes unprecedented in human history - an absorbing new history looks at the entire world four centuries ago ... and of course glances at our own
Read MoreBook Review: Europe
/That long-standing hotbed of world history, Europe, gets a big new dissection by one of our most engaging historians
Read MoreBook Review: The Girls of Atomic City
/At the heigh of the Second World War, they traveled to a custom-made town in the middle of nowhere and worked jobs they didn't understand and were forbidden to question - and a year later, the U.S. had a working atom bomb. They were the girls of Atomic City, and their story finally gets told.
Read MoreBook Review: The Undivided Past
/One of our greatest living historians argues that far more unites humanity than divides it - but is anybody listening?
Read MoreBook Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn
/She's an icon, a cautionary tale, a baleful notoriety - she's Anne Boleyn, who bewitched a king and drove him to remake a world, all for the sake of a dream she could never give him. A fascinating new book looks at the way all the ways history has made and re-made Henry VIII's most infamous queen
Read MoreBook Review: Edwardian Opulence
/The richest denizens of the Edwardian Era swan around in their finest stuff, immortalized by the likes of Sargent and Boldini, and a sumptuous new book from Yale University Press records it all
Read MoreBack in Paperback: The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
/David Halberstam's 1968 profile of candidate Robert Kennedy gets a new reprint for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Invisible Armies
/A big new book looks at the long history of guerrilla warfare and centers its lessons on our own time.
Read MoreBook Review: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
/The greatest enemy of freedom is ... democracy? Come get to know Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, ladies and gentlemen!
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Sisters
/Sarah Gristwood (author of the utterly delightful "Arbella: England's Lost Queen") charts the triumphs and tragedies of the seven key women in the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreBook Review: A Great and Monstrous Thing
/"Houses, Churches, mix'd together - Streets, unpleasant in all Weather" - so wrote the poet about resolute, dissolute London, whose 18th century excesses are the subject of a grand new book
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