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This cerebral work explores music’s power to capture an age.
Bad Mexicans
By Kelly Lytle Hernández
An intelligent, valuable political history from south of the border.
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
By Jonathan W. White
An ambitious, bloated tale of 19th-century derring-do.
Formidable
By Elisabeth Griffith
A dense, comprehensive look at an ongoing struggle.
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
By James B. Conroy
A valuable, overly dense account of the pivotal Casablanca Conference.
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season that Defined the American West
By Chris Wimmer
A fascinating rundown of the frontier’s famed good and bad guys (and girls).
Tears Over Russia
By Lisa Brahin
The horrors playing out today have deep roots in the past.
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
By Christopher Miller
A diary-like account of a brave people’s resistance to Russian invasion.
