What do a rogue elephant, a wild boar, and a shaven porcupine have in common? They all reflect facets of…
Bruce Levine, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois and an award-winning author of books on the…
We are told not to judge a book by its cover. In this case, however, Stacy Schiff chose an appropriate…
If words are weapons, then Winston Churchill possessed a personal arsenal. Martin Gilbert opens this anthology of Churchill’s work by…
With so many biographies of George Washington available, it is not so much a matter of having something new to say…
Best known as the wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill served as one of her…
In the popular imagination, the name “Genghis Khan” continues to conjure images of savage Mongol hordes laying waste to everything…
Paul Addison’s Churchill: The Unexpected Hero builds on his earlier Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry in presenting a more…
On the final page of her book, author Lauren Arrington, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of…
Alexis Coe, trained as a historian, and employed at various times by the Brooklyn Historical Society and as a research…