Oil and Africa
December 18, 2025[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Adam Robert’s new book The Wonga Coup: Guns,...
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
December 17, 2025O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
America’s Race to the Moon
December 17, 2025During the Apollo 15 mission, an anonymous viewer phoned his local TV station to suggest that...
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
December 14, 2025The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
December 14, 2025Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
December 10, 2025You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
December 10, 2025By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
December 9, 2025Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...




