To the extent that folks think of American Presidents from the second half of the 19th century, most tend to remember Lincoln and then...

When the ravages of the Great Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House in the election of 1932, it was not...

I first came across Kozol's writing in college. It was 1995 and I was dating an education major. This book was in her dorm room, and I...

For the hundredth entry in this series, I'm sharing one of the most important books I've ever read. Johnson's volume is brief - under 150...

I can't speak rationally about my love for William Shatner. More specifically, Shatner's depiction of the swaggering, libidinous,...

The deeper the well of memory, the trickier it becomes to separate history from myth. As the years pass by, favorite stories become...

Disease has been with humanity for as long as we have roamed the Earth, and McNeill skillfully retells our collective narrative through...

I love history, and sports, and Teddy Roosevelt, so there's no universe in which I'd pass by a book covering all three, even one penned...

I was saddened this morning to hear of the passing of Tony Horwitz, the experiential travelogue author most probably recognize from his...

When it comes to the Presidency, I've always been partial to candidates who have had some executive experience in government. Some of our...

When I was born in 1975, the Mount Rushmore of Boston Sports was Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Cy Young, and Bobby Orr. Orr was about to...

When an autocratic President seeks to silence his critics by declaring their attacks "fake news" and journalism is cloaked in strident...