U.S.

Reviewed by: 

“Harryhausen: The Movie Posters is infotainment in the best sense of the word.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

“Capitalism in America is an unabashed, detailed defense of capitalism.”

Reviewed by: 

“Every Krauthammer column is a joy to read—whether you agree or disagree with his particular position on a specific political issue or personality—because he combined graceful writing, comp

Reviewed by: 

John Strausbaugh likes to tell big stories about New York—and he tells them very well.

Reviewed by: 

Harvey Milk was on the San Francisco board of supervisors and was the most high-profile openly gay elected officials in the world when he was gunned down in his office 40 years ago this month.

Reviewed by: 

"The War Before the War is not an encyclopedia but a deep, scholarly, engrossing introduction to its subject that impacts us even today and in many ways.

Reviewed by: 

“The book is not a complete history of U.S.-British relations, but instead a narrower and more focused look at how as empires Britain and America struggled for power and influence.

Reviewed by: 

“With the word refugee as divisive now as it has ever been, O’Dowd’s book, examining how fresh off the boat migrants fleeing starvation and persecution helped to save the Union, co

Reviewed by: 

“If one ranks the American empire as the world’s most powerful, rivaled only by imperial Rome in its heyday, then for a brief moment, by the close of his time in office,” George H. W.

Author(s):
Reviewed by: 

The Columbus Museum of Art commemorates the centenary of The Harlem Renaissance with an exhibit titled I Too Sing America, which is also the title of the beautifully curated companion book

Reviewed by: 

“after reading her story, you might want to remove the modifiers: Eunice was not just a brilliant African American woman lawyer; she was a brilliant lawyer.”

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

"Despite the volume of this book and its controversial interpretations, it makes a fast easy adventure in reading.

Reviewed by: 

Jay Sexton puts American history in a global perspective.

Reviewed by: 

“The Heidlers tell an engrossing story that covers a remarkably complex history in relatively few pages. It is a true page-turner.”

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

"Baime wrote The Accidental President almost as if a witness to those momentous times.

Author(s):
Reviewed by: 

"The beginnings of class warfare, democracy, individual liberty, local government, racism, and American slavery had beginnings for what would become the United States in Ja

Reviewed by: 

"through this book of nonfiction snippets, however enlightening, the idea of the author seeing a much bigger picture emerges, one best told through the experience of the different parts."

Reviewed by: 

“The book is sure to inspire home cooks to try a hand at baking their own bread and churning fresh butter or spend time drooling over the scrumptious photographs.”

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

Many Americans were shocked last year to watch neo-Nazis marching and chanting racist profanity in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Reviewed by: 

In “The Accidental Rebel,” an op-ed published in The New York Times on the 40th anniversary of the Columbia student uprising of 1968, novelist Paul Auster (Columbia ’69) asserted that stud

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

In the decade before the Civil War two writers penned words that capture the erratic pulse of our American Experiment.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

"Frontier Rebels makes for a good read, a lost bit of American history in a greater colonial epic in need of telling."

Reviewed by: 

Some of the names of the 56 signers—our Founding Fathers—of the Declaration of Independence are well known.

Pages