HNR Issue 58 (November 2011)
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
One of the negative side effects of the decline in newspaper readership is that fewer people are exposed to the…
Scandalous Desires
Widow Silence Hollingbrook has a quiet life, working as headmistress of a foundlings’ home in the stews of St. Giles.…
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
In 1744, Sophia, a 14-year-old German princess, arrived in Moscow as a bride-to-be. In this biography, Massie tells us how…
Death of a Radical
It’s 1812 and Raif Jarrett, agent to the Duke of Penrith, awaits a visit from his cousin. Favian is an…
The Pianist in the Dark
Maria Theresa von Paradis was the musically talented daughter and only child of the secretary of the Empress of Austria.…
The Artificial Silk Girl
First published in 1932, Irmgard Keun’s The Artificial Silk Girl became a runaway bestseller in its native Germany. And yet,…
The Assassin in the Marais
The Assassin in the Marais is the fourth title in the Victor Legris mystery series set in Belle Époque Paris.…
The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
Few events in American history have stirred the national imagination as much as the heroic stand of ragtag colonial militia…
After Midnight
“A writer who is afraid is no true writer,” say the bohemian characters in Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, though the…
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
As swastikas decorate their national monuments, French authorities make an even more horrific discovery at a house in the fashionable…
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