Considering and Reconsidering Ulysses S. Grant
Two new books add nuance, but no firm conclusions, to historians’ reassessments of the general and president
A New Debs For a New Era
This New Biography Contextualizes America’s Socialist Past Within Its New Socialist Moment
An Incomplete Guide to the Female Monster
A new but limited history of the women who have always terrified men
Mining the Past for New Material
A new book from a prolific popular historian takes readers to the gold camps of California, but not much farther
Living, Laughing, Buying, and Voting
Two new books take on the history of American evangelical women’s cultural and political power
Waking Up From a Carolingian Dream
A new history of Charlemagne’s empire dethrones the usual narrative of its rise and fall