Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom

A baby boomer reflects on his life as a student.

A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History

A Smithsonian educator discusses the problems of presenting the past to the public.

By Gordon Corrigan

A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England

A British partisan details the history and significance of the legendary, and lengthy, conflict.

Brothers Forever

By Tom Sileo and Col. Tom Manion

Brothers Forever

A Navy SEAL and a Marine who were Naval Academy roommates become brothers in death as well as in life when buried side by side in Arlington National Cemetery.

Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit

The ups and downs of bourbon in the U.S., from its origins, through Prohibition, to today’s craft distillers.

Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.

A chatty account of Washington’s storied beers and brewmasters.

Louis Barthas

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Life in the trenches of World War I, recorded by one who endured four years there.