"The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver" by Robert Prather is a fascinating look at an old Kentucky legend. Most readers will be familiar with the name Jonathan Swift. However, this is not the Jonathan Swift that wrote "Gulliver’s Travels"...

In "Murder and Mayhem", Michael Thomas Barry presents us with 52 crimes that shocked early California in the 100 year from 1849. Taken from newspaper articles and filled with great photos from the period, the book allows us to revisit many famous and hideous crimes...

Unmarried Holocaust survivor Sidonia Perlstein immigrated with her toddler daughter, Hanna, to the United States in those years right after the World War. Sidonia settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in a neighborhood of Jews, many coming as survivors from the Nazi concentration camps. Stoic Sidonia is...

This book appealed to me because sadly we weren’t taught much about history in school. Either that, or I am so old now that I have already forgotten it all. This book was a wonderful, fun, informative source for children (and adults) to learn more...

Since 9/11 the fears of Muslims attacking Americans provoked the creation of the PATRIOT ACT. The very name meant that to disagree with it made you un-American. This has morphed into the most egregious violations of our Constitutional rights since Joseph McCarthy’s efforts to destroy...

"Winston and Salem Tales of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem" by Jennifer Bean Bower is quite a fascinating book. The author who is an associate curator of the photographic collections at the Old Salem Museums and Gardens, has provided some excellent photographs throughout the book dealing...

"Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is based on actual events. It is a dramatic retelling of a traumatic event in American history. This book is filled with facts that somehow escaped my American history classes....

I don't read many non-fiction books, but when I do, they have to be REALLY awesome sounding. I am also a big history lover, on top of being from North Carolina, so I jumped on the chance to review Touring The Carolina's Civil War Sites....

"SUBIC: A Sailor’s Memoir", based on the story of Bobby Earl Perkins, is a very heart-wrenching and true memoir written by Dr. Barbara Perkins-Brown, Ed.D. This story is about the soulful journey of a great and courageous African American man that served as a sailor...

Book One introduces the reader to some of the greatest Western epics, such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dante’s The Divine Comedy and many others. Each epic is summarized in a short synopsis, which is followed by the author’s commentary....