As 2019 winds down, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the past—both the events of a momentous year and the more distant history that brought us to...

This October feels like an especially good time to remember that history is happening all around us, all the time. Certainly, this is the ideal month to...

If it’s June, half the year has come and gone—and what an eventful year it’s already been. Putting things into perspective is what reading is for, so...

Like Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” It’s impossible to fully understand our world without revisiting...

2017 was a tough year for reality, in the sense that many of us spent the year trying as hard as possible to avoid it. But the only way 2018 is going to be...

2017 was a monumental year for the world, and just as great a one for books that look back on how we got to here. These 25 books encompass a wide range of...

There’s an implied belief that eventually we as a race will figure everything out. We’ll cure the common cold, we’ll manage faster-than-light travel,...

The Blood of Emmett Till, by Timothy B. Tyson The horrific 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and the trial that followed—which resulted in acquittal from the...

A century and half ago, the bloody, pitched battles that defined America occurred right here on our own soil. Both sides of the Civil War were Americans...