The Confessions of Gonzalo Guerrero is a brilliant book. Being taken into the mind of Gonzalo Guerrero and being able to understand what dilemmas he faced and what motivated him made for a very interesting narrative. The story begins with the young Gonzalo in Spain,...

In a world where thrillers, romance novels, and exposés compete actively to trump one another for bestseller bragging rights, there is nothing as refreshing and restorative as a book which seeks only to praise and preserve positive values and bygone days. As Country as it...

Most people know about the events and historically documented occurrences of African Americans in the United States as they went from slaves to being free citizens. That, however, is far from all that transpired. The black people of the United States, during the birth of...

Shadows in the Forest chronicles the Indian descendants of Illinois, U.S.A. Author Tim. L. Jarvis took great pleasure in tracing the historical roots of the Illinois Indians. He even went on to portray the demise of the tribe as a result of several wars...

War Babies by Richard Pells covers well-trodden territory, but does so with a difference. America and the world went through a transformative period in the 1960s and 1970s. The history of this time has been written about extensively, but most of it has been told...

Alaska Travelogue by State - Experience Both the Ordinary and Obscure by Amber Richards is a fascinating glimpse into what is truly the “last frontier”. I have always loved Alaska and to read about it from someone who calls it their home is indeed a...

Vision: An Inclusive Alternative to End the Arab-Israeli Conflict is all about finding peace in the Middle East. Could we really have peace in the Middle East just by getting along? Well, there is much more to it than that, but Ahmed Elnakouri details a...

I liked Neither Here nor There: A First Generation Immigrant in Search of American Exceptionalism by Frans H. Jager. Mr. Jager, a well-traveled, Dutch-born man with extensive time spent in the United States, is qualified to recognize the factors preventing America from being a truly...

Susan Elmore’s novel, Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes, is a non-fiction, true crime story that happened in the late 1800s. Emma Bond, a young schoolteacher is viciously gang-raped and left for dead in her school. She miraculously survives...

Sex, Drugs and Tessellation is a collection of articles and commentary from CyberEdge Journal. Virtual Reality actually got its start in the 1940s, according to Ben Delaney. The first HMD was demonstrated in the '60s and texture-mapped 3D graphics in the '80s. The first big...