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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
By Josiah Osgood
What the legendary orator/striver can teach us yet today.
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
By Tao Leigh Goffe
How colonialism impacts our thinking about the environment.
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
By Richard Carwardine
Was Abe’s spiritual transformation an honest one?
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
By Marlene L. Daut
This revelatory work restores a lost figure to the pantheon of pivotal world leaders.
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
By Kristen Martin
Revealing the ugly truth behind the pretty stories.
A rollicking if under-sourced look at mobsters in the Oval.
American Imperialist
By Arwen P. Mohun
King Leopold didn’t exploit the Congo all by himself.
The Savage Storm
By James Holland
This illuminating account of a storied invasion fills in the gaps between strategy and reality.
