HNR Issue 54 (November 2010)
Snow Hall
In 1907 County Durham, Lorna Robson lives in poverty, selling hats. Then Aidan Hedley, handsome solicitor for the Carlyle family,…
Every House Needs a Balcony
Editors' choice
Young Rina lives in a crowded neighborhood in Haifa with her extended family, comprised mainly of Eastern Europeans who immigrated…
The House on Malcolm Street
It is 1920. Leah Breckenridge and her daughter, Eliza, are boarding a train from St. Louis to Andersonville on their…
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke’s Drift
At iSandlwana in 1879, 20,000 Zulus defeated 1,800 men of the British Army in a battle so bloody and devastating…
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers
The Founding Fathers of the United States (or The Founders, to use a more contemporary term) and their religious values…
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
The 1939 New York World’s Fair transformed the dumps of Flushing Meadows into a wonderland of science, architecture, and cultural…
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
Until I read this book, the allied operations in Burma were but a postscript to the American island-hopping war in…
The Battle of Britain
James Holland has chosen May 1939 as the start of the Battle of Britain for this excellent study of a…
Hancox: A House and a Family
The author grew up and still lives in a house that has been in her family since 1888. Yet Hancox…
Anthropology of an American Girl
Literature is riddled with coming-of-age stories. The drama of adolescence lends itself to gripping narrative – first love, first heartbreak,…
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