2002
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
There’s an exciting sense of discovery as author Richard Zacks peels back the layers of history and shows us 1696…
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
April, 1865 saw the burning of Richmond, Lee’s surrender, Lincoln assassinated, Northern chaos, a South economically and socially devastated, failed…
Surviving the Confederacy
Mr. Waugh states that his mission as a writer is to “revive [history’s] echoes, and rekindle the passion of former…
Travels With A Medieval Queen
The queen of the title, Constance of Hauteville, daughter of Roger II of Sicily, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry…
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BCE to a well-connected provincial family. Throughout his early years, he immersed himself…
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
This sequel to What If? contains twenty-five essays from historians both professional and amateur (Caleb Carr contributes to this present…
All Night Awake
All Night Awake is a sequel to Ill Met by Moonlight, which described young Will Shakespeare’s first encounter with Faerie.…
December 6
Few novelists possess Martin Cruz Smith’s talents in transporting a reader to a different era and actually making them believe…
The Righteous Cut
In 1941 New Orleans, when the young daughter of corrupt white councilman Whitman Richards is kidnapped, Whitman refuses to allow…
This Side of the Sky
Lilian and Myraleen first met as toddlers in 1930 in Mississippi. Growing up in the small black community of Nadir,…
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