During the Historical Novel Society Conference this year, one topic that seemed to pop up in one way or another in every panel I attended, w...

I knew a little about the Lindbergh’s prior to reading Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg; however, I had no idea that either Charles or Anne had w...

The Gilded Age is such a fascinating time period, and the lives of those who lived in the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island are so fascinati...

Last week I spent time discussing the Fitzgeralds, Zelda and Scott, but I wanted to get a quick understanding of the books both by them and ...

I was recently made aware of a series of books from Open Court Publishing called Popular Culture & Philosophy .  I found out about the s...

I never realized what a wealth of photo documentation there was out there on the 1906 earthquake.  I subconsciously knew that photography ha...

The Dust Bowl of the 1930's was a terrible economic and natural disaster in the United States.  Crops were destroyed, people died, famil...

I have recently found myself interested more in the King Arthur legends and was interested in what other novels there are out there - not on...