How an antebellum Creole aid society helped shape New Orleans.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

This otherwise informative history is hamstrung by its fixation on Sylvia Plath’s notorious suicide.

• Non-Fiction,
• Biography & Memoir,
• History,
• United States,
• Performing Arts & Entertainment,

A rare look at an evangelical woman’s attempt to expand her world in the early 1800s.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,
• Religion,

A little-known story of poor Jewish women uniting to demand fairly priced fleishig.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

This laudable work is less an account of the 1862 clash than of five notable figures who served on or near the battlefield.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

By mining archival records, the author brings the human side of the long-ago tragedy to life.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

America’s current “I dare you” commander-in-chief underscores how completely the position hinges on the noble intent of its holder.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,
• Political Science,

A Pulitzer-worthy investigation of escaped war criminals.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,