Comprehensive Yet Digestible: Jill Lepore’s These Truths

A Poignant and Personal Story of Slavery and Its Aftermath: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon

Well, Yeah: Jeffrey A. Auerbach‘s Imperial Boredom

Seasonal Affectation: The Curious Case of Romanticizing Weather in History

Riveting and Insightful: Peter Stark’s Astoria

A History of Ideas in Graphic Illustration: Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell’s The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation

Not His Best Work: John Keegan’s The American Civil War

Humility in the Home of the Brave

Too Grand a Scope: Diane Sommerville’s Aberration of Mind