How Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright and Frances Seward challenged a nation’s conscience.

Originally published in 1935, it grew out of stories that Brink heard from her grandmother about growing up in a...

The man who did so much for the antislavery cause was once regarded as a dangerous zealot. No more.

A complex consideration of the cigarette phenomenon in the twentieth century.

Along with its overall historical accuracy and the believability of its characters, that refusal to delude readers with false resolutions...

In this new collection, the famed essayist demonstrates her longstanding mastery of the form.

A reappraisal of one of America's First Lady's, Mrs. Bush was the wife of one president, and mother of another.

Hein tailors a family history that is fiction and fact.

A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary...

There may be no more difficult, or intriguing, subject for a political biography than Richard Nixon.

Reviewed by Ed Lengel Published in 2007, at a time when historians and other writers were only just beginning to...

Reviewed by Ed Lengel Observed from any angle, the story of Lyndon Baines Johnson presents a cautionary tale during a...