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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
June 9, 2020Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
June 6, 2020When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
June 4, 2020The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
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The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
June 3, 2020It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
June 3, 2020This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
June 1, 2020Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
May 27, 2020No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
May 27, 2020Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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