Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
March 15, 2025"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
March 14, 2025"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
March 13, 2025It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
March 13, 2025The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
March 13, 2025The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
March 12, 2025Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
March 12, 2025"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...




