Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance
How John Singer Sargent captured the dawn of a new century in his portrait of two New Yorkers.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
The chilling chronicle of an injustice in the Florida courts that became a turning point in the civil rights movement.
Island of Vice
The Rough Rider versus the Rotten Apple.
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
A woman renounces her strict religious upbringing.
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess
An unexpected inheritance meets a family's religious fervor, with calamitous results.
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr
A Hollywood star's inventive legacy.
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion
The complicated woman who pioneered family planning and advocated population control.
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
The life of the "first person of African descent in the Americas to publish a book."
Bird on Fire
A study of urban sustainability in Phoenix finds troubling realities.
Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
A bracing account of one man's decades-long struggle to stanch urban violence.
Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
A bracing account of one man's decades-long struggle to stanch urban violence.
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
Before the big-box stores, there was one retailer that dwarfed the competition.
