Elizabeth Hardwick’s tempestuous marriage to Robert Lowell drew attention away from her own powerful work.

How a generation of American writers took inspiration from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s provocative, irresistible ideas.

Returns us not to a simpler time, but to a time when simpler means for growth and healing remained accessible.

by Donald A. Ritchie Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by Heller McAlpin for The Wall Street Journal

Frederick Douglass and Republican legislators had high hopes for Andrew Johnson—but ended up impeaching him. Reviewed by Randall Fuller for...

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by David M. Shribman for The Wall Street Journal

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage

The onetime “hidden figure” recounts her extraordinary path from the Jim Crow South to the halls of NASA.