HNR Issue 59 (February 2012)
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
In mid-16th-century Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus, a reclusive canon of the Catholic Church, had labored for decades over an astronomical treatise…
No Less in Blood
The story begins in 2007 and then flashes back and forth to 1893 and the true beginning of the saga…
Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders
The eponymous heroine of Daniel Defoe’s novel, first published in 1722, is a well-known icon of female depravity. Moll was…
The Sherlockian
Editors' choice
Anyone who has read even a few of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories featuring Sherlock Holmes knows that the author killed…
Titanic Tragedy
April 15, 2012, marks a sad centennial: the sinking of the Titanic. Interest has never waned in this preventable tragedy,…
Minuet for Guitar
This is a translation by Harry Leeming of a 1975 work by a noted Slovenian writer, a fictional account of…
The Tigress of Forlì: The Life of Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
Caterina Sforza, born in 1463, lived a full life. The illegitimate daughter of the future Duke of Milan, she was…
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
This is a story you might think you know already, also thanks to Alan Moorehead’s two books published fifty years…
Rain Falls Like Mercy
Rain Falls Like Mercy, the third book in Jack Todd’s western trilogy after Sun Going Down and Come Again No…
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
With his raid and subsequent hanging in 1859, John Brown was despised as a madman in the South and revered…
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