Restoring the Gaps: Richard Miles’ Carthage Must Be Destroyed

The Personal Touch: Miles Taylor’s Empress

No Theme Left Unturned: National Geographic’s Barkskins

Glimpses of Modernity: Stephen Dando-Collins’s Legions of Rome

Dark History Just Got Darker: Starz’ Outlander

A Tale of Two Empires: Stephen R. Platt’s Imperial Twilight

Meaningfully Discomforting: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

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

Riveting and Insightful: Peter Stark’s Astoria