I'm not entirely sure how to categorize Mary Roach. She's sort of a comedic travel writer, but instead of taking us to places, she takes...

As a teenager and young man, I had the healthy interest in Camelot and the Kennedy mystique not uncommon to politically engaged and...

A few years back I tried my hand at writing a heroic epic set in the time of Charlemagne. It was intended to be historic fiction with...

A bit of a follow-up to yesterday's entry, this book is full of more word candy for American geography fans. Why are the state boundaries...

Given sufficient time, and perhaps a map, most of us could name and locate all fifty of the current states of the union. This...

My fascination with American leadership extends beyond presidents to include the supporting cast of extraordinary people who have played...

In honor of what this afternoon could very well be the last stand of the most dominant sustained dynasty ever in pro football, we take a...

Ben Franklin. America's answer to Leonardo Da Vinci. Patriot and paramour, he managed to stay abreast of both politics and fashion during...

I was young when I first read John Hersey's recounting of humanity's first encounter with the horrific consequences of atomic weaponry. I...

The most famous of all maritime mutinies is a true story, though we've become accustomed to the fictionalizations of the event. Nordhoff...

Sometimes you love a book not because of its content but because of the physical object itself. This beat-up wire-bound book of maps made...

As a student of history, I'm interested in most time periods. I've never really studied military history, so I can't go toe-to-toe with...