History

Former Ambassador and U.S. Special Envoy on Afghanistan Peter Tomsen’s first book has much to commend it.

“Secrecy endures as the ultimate legacy of this mysterious movement, then as now.

“Peter Eichstaedt’s Consuming the Congo is a comprehensive and thorough exposure of brutality that has not been equaled since the genocide in Rwanda. . . .

“Mr. Arquilla adds to his academic muscle with an enjoyable work that reads less like history and more like an adventure story.”

In his study, The Whites of Their Eyes, Paul Lockhart reminds the reader that aside from being the first “honest-to-goodness battle” of The Revolutionary War, the battle of Bunker Hill had

It’s okay to giggle like a schoolboy at the title—even the author acknowledges so in his introduction to The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Thro

Fernando Tejerina edits this first single-volume survey of the evolution and current state of institutions of higher learning.

Grace Balogh is almost 30 years old before she found out her birthday was April 6th and not the 16th.

Here, at the beginning of the 21st century, Noah Webster is an often overlooked fixture of American culture to a modern audience.

Freelance writer Katharine Greider works hard at doing right by her subject, a one hundred and 50-year-old tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side where she and her husband, David Andrews,

To those used to the utter lack of respect given to artists in contemporary times, especially in America, the topic of Mr. Volkov’s book may seem puzzling.