The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...

Joe Starita’s The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge traces four generations of one Oglala Lakota family across a century. The book begins with Guy Dull Knife Sr., nearly ninety-five in a Colorado nursing home, then reaches back to Chief Dull Knife and the Northern Cheyenne...

Barksdale Chronicles in America, Vol. 2, by Robert A. Groves traces the genealogy of the Barksdale family across more than two hundred years of American history. The first family member explored is William D. Barksdale. He was a Virginia landowner and Revolutionary War veteran. From...

Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People by Shira Sebban follows Vietnamese asylum seekers returned from Australia after arriving by sea, beginning with Tran Thi Thanh Loan, a Catholic mother facing prison in Vietnam after officials sent her family back. Sebban enters the case through a newspaper...

When the World Dies by D.E. Davis captures various evil deeds that have occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries as a result of the rise in totalitarianism and total war. The First World War was the first major world war, which cost millions of...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

From Kiev to Moscow traces how Russian rule changed its meaning as political life moved from medieval Kiev to Moscow. Meletios Semertzides presents Kiev as a society where a prince’s power still had to answer to public custom shaped by Christian duty and town approval....

Donna Hills Patrick and Raymond Hills’s The Town I Crow About is an honest window into the real history of East Millstone, New Jersey. It takes us through the memories of a man who lived there for over ninety years. The book relies on raw...

Too many Americans see Washington, DC, as simply a political hot mess, yet there is so much more to our nation’s capital. Author Ken Wilcox makes this abundantly clear in Ultimate DC: Travel, Walk, Explore. In it, he shares his love and knowledge of the...

Ari Schneider’s Stolen Headstones is a compelling memoir where the author reconstructs his grandfather Louis’ actual experiences during the Holocaust by cross-referencing family documents with official international archive data. The book details how Louis fabricated heroic stories about shooting soldiers and eating rodents to mask...