Robert S. Davis

"The Life and Death of Ancient Cities joins a shelf full of enlightening new fun reads on understanding our beginnings in the ancient world."

"Davis and Douglas arose from very different Americas to create one tragic national history."

"An Incipient Mutiny fills in an unexplored but critical part of American military history."

"David D. Hall provides an enlightening, well organized, easy read . . . on how the Puritans arose from English populism to what they became in America"

“MacGregor . . .

"Well-illustrated and fully annotated, Forgotten Bastards covers its subject on several levels and in a readable style."

"Anthony Everitt's understanding of the world of Alexander the Great does better at solving the mystery of the man than in solving his death."

"No one needs a background in the Renaissance and its Holy Roman Church to enjoy this epic and fast- paced tale of debauchery, intrigue, politics, and more."

"Jeff Guinn studies the very different Edison and Ford as much as the places they camped.

"The individual readers will question much of Crimes and Cover-Ups, agree with other parts, and think hard about the points raised."

“The Crowded Hour, with a rousing narrative, does Roosevelt justice, but it serves even better in explaining the 1898 war."

"Scholars of Mayhem has more adventure than an Alister McLean novel even though it is nonfiction!"

"Rigby tells an exciting tale with action coming in right away in the first chapters."

"Becoming Michelangelo successfully tells of an epic story of an artist through the experiences of the author/artist . . ."

"D'Angour writes for a general audience without losing the reader or the subject of Socrates in Love: the complexities of Greek philosophy."

"this modern commentary on the Commentaries also 'lets you see Caesar the man and politician, not just the general he wanted you to see.'"

“[That] The Presidents makes a fast, engrossing read comes as no surprise . . . It works on so many levels including for a general audience.”

“Case Red has detail that  . . . would make an educational and entertaining read for the World War II enthusiast.”

"More adventure comes packed on certain pages in So Close to Freedom than in other entire books."

"The prose used in John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy is highly readable and thought provoking, breaking down one of the last, great, m

"Clavin weaves a tale of brothels, buffalo, cattle, Colt revolvers, desert, faro, gunfighters, Indians, railroads, saloons, and wagons but mainly of the friendship between the legends of Wy

"Kate Hubbard tells the story of Bess of Hardwick in clear and engrossing writing while carefully navigating the complexities of building, entitlement, estate, marriage, and politics in Tud

"This beautiful book has a fast and entertaining narrative that encourages the reader to go out to discover and wonder."

“Placeless People delves deeply into the philosophy of human rights but with easy prose and a structure that would give anyone pause when thinking about our times.

"Noted Military Historian Hampton Sides gives the background of the conflict but within the story of the clash personalities, not in a formal introduction.

"When Women Ruled the World (or at least the Egyptian part of it) draws the reader into many less known aspects of ancient history with an informa

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

"Fredriksen tells this critical history be contrasting the meanings in the sources, particularly in the New Testament, through the story of the money changers, the resurrection, and the End

"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

"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."

"A Fierce Glory offers spectacle over detail to the benefit of understanding."

"One would think that a biography of an economist would make almost as dull a read as a book on economics.

"Beard avoids the temptation to lecture on what the author imagines as the meaning of the image.

"Weisman here gives a solid outline of the history of Jewish divisiveness that anyone can follow, an important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American histo

“Keep the Days tells the histories of these Civil War works as individual lives, social history, and literature, not as chronicles of battles, god

"Above and Beyond, by different roads, arrives at the single greater epic of the U-2 and the Cuban missile crisis that swung from almost guarantee

"Francis' 'achievements were extraordinary' in no small part from his 'Machiavellian skill that put his peers to shame.’"

“This collection would make a great item to place on some deep space probe for other intelligent life to use to learn who and what we are.”

“The Wizard and the Prophet shows that even the ‘latest’ ideas on creation and energy have origins in the modern beginnings of the environmental movement.”

"Squadron: Ending the Africa Slave Trade consists of well-told, gripping, and graphic stories of individual battles against the East African slave

"Sigmund tells his story in a way that engages and educates but never bores the reader. His easy prose explains why philosophy is important . . ."

"Despite the book's size, the complexity of its subject, and the narrative's variance with common public memory, it is a fast engaging read that corrects, even scatters, misconceptions."

"Essential Witness reminds the reader of what quality, talent, and technical expertise meant in photography and with America's railroads as a subject."

"Read this book. Do not wait until some modern Buffalo Bill makes this story into another epic movie about the West's greatest show!"

“What better way could one take a journey in an easy chair?”

"The result is an enlightening telling of America's most famous killing."

"This book is an engrossing adventure about the rise of midwest America."

“The Jersey Brothers demonstrates that a well-told story is just that, whatever its genre.”

"are buildings extensions of us . . . or are we extensions of them?"

“A dramatic read, this work expounds in detail on critically important parts of American history that tragically have gone forgotten and unlearned.”

“An Iron Wind is a thoroughly worked example of social history at its most valuable.

“No book on the colorful SAS could be as much fun to read.”

Pioneer CIA director and espionage historian Allen Dulles famously wrote that more spy craft commonly went on in any Italian city state in the Renaissance than in the whole of the relatively modern

“will surely be a classic on its subject and a lot of fun for the lovers of good narrative built on well-researched military history.”

Many scholars dream of writing The Great Book on the determinism of the past. A challenge is to write it for a popular audience while retaining the excitement of narrative history.

Enough books appear on individual race-hatred-based lynching in the South to constitute a genre.

Karl Rove is famous for his role in modern political campaigns.

Anghiari was a minor battle on June 29, 1440, in a series of otherwise all too common Florentine defeats as this commune spiraled toward the bottom in the years of the Italian Renaissance.

Cultures around the world celebrate the concept of living to achieve a good death. A writer can have a life that makes for as engrossing a story as any tale he or she could invent.

In recent years several writers have discovered the forgotten, ignored, or lost early maritime history of the United States.

History as documented through the image has a short historiography. Until recently, even the nobility lacked multiple images or sometimes any likeness at all.

Every corner of the world is now seemingly explored, mapped, photographed, and available for visiting on the Internet.

Americans remember George Washington for a great many things but not as one of the great lights among the intellectuals of the Enlightenment era and the American Revolution.

In the 2000 movie Running Mates (2000), Faye Dunaway's character observes that the only thing anyone ever named for a first lady was a rehab center. Louisa Catherine Johnson (Mrs.

Swindler, serial bigamist, jail bird, theatrical promoter, and alleged spy for Abraham Lincoln, William Alvin Lloyd (1822–1869) was a man representative of the worst of his times, as the authors in

“good storytelling built on solid scholarship . . .”

“This highly readable book never lacks for the big story but it also does not let that history lose the hero.”

“The Hollywood stereotype of the 19th century war correspondent, or any newspaperman of that period, was a young single white male with a penchant for alcohol and a dream of writing the gre