AmeriCANS Who Made America! by Richard V. Battle describes how 43 remarkable individuals throughout the 1900s contributed to shaping the United States as it became a world power. Battle breaks his work down into three sections where he examines individuals and how their service to...

Afterbursts is a collection of first-hand memories from 100 survivors of World War II. Author Lucy Colback traveled the globe for four years, interviewing people from every side of the war. Global representation in the collection includes China, Japan, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and...

John F. Kennedy: Light the World – A Ceremonial Play with Songs and Photos by Charles D Jewell is one of those special projects that light up the world. The author has created a wonderful play that celebrates not just the life and times of...

President Trump’s recent forays into American expansionism with his talk about making Canada and Greenland part of the United States are nothing new. In truth, according to America, But Bigger: Near Annexations From Greenland To Galapagos by Mark Kawar, America has quite a history of...

Samuel Marquis’s Empire and Frontier is set in 1689 New York, where Peter Schuyler serves as mayor of Albany as the province faces rebellion following England’s Glorious Revolution. Everything changes when New York City merchant Jacob Leisler seizes Fort James, claiming provincial power in support...

Owen Parr’s Opportunity Sought and Applied II brings together twenty-three imagined conversations with people whose work expanded what others believed possible. Beginning with Benjamin Franklin in 1789 Philadelphia, the author steps into each person’s world to ask how an opportunity first became visible and what...

Jack R. Bialik’s Lost in Time examines a recurring pattern in human history, where knowledge can disappear for centuries before surviving evidence brings it back into view. The book begins by questioning familiar assumptions about when ideas first appeared, using early cataract surgery to show...

There are probably hundreds of books about the fate of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust, but relatively few about the fate of German Jews during the same period. Even fewer focus on German families who escaped not to America or British-ruled Palestine, but to...

Before the Revolution by Mario Cartaya is a historical account of Cuba that traces the island from Spanish rule through independence and into the republic created at the beginning of the twentieth century. José Martí emerges as a defining voice in the independence movement before...

Stolen Dreams: A Manchurian Legacy by Julie Kowalska Sormark is a historical memoir that follows the life of Vladislav Kowalski. It would appeal to a diverse audience of young adults and adults who enjoy learning about history and real-world adventurers. When we hear the word...