Traveling the world is bound to make the traveler aware of some of the world’s most memorable historic moments. In Kirk Ward Robinson’s Hiking Through History, the author takes readers on an epic journey through Scotland, Spain, France, and Italy, sharing fascinating details of the...

The DiNardo family’s life in America didn’t start easily. In 1921, just after World War I, Ubaldo DiNardo, a war veteran, and his wife Marietta left Southern Italy to start over in the United States. Laws kept them apart for seven long years. Ubaldo went...

Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West by Ty Bannerman is a memoir that leans into Los Alamos and how generations of the Bannermans worked inside the nuclear weapons program. That inheritance drives him back to New Mexico ground, marked by the first atomic...

Ironmania by David Evans details the 1984 Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championship and explores the personal, cultural, and historical factors that transformed the event into a global sensation. Evans places the race at a pivotal moment when Ironman evolved from a niche endurance challenge into...

Three young rebellious artists established the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London in 1848. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. They rejected the rigidity of the Royal Academy's standards, which were rooted in the Italian High Renaissance. Rossetti, Millais, and...

God’s Words: Preaching Peace While Justifying Violence by Ricardo V. Sibilla is a philosophical guide that sets out to dismantle the assumption that sacred texts transmit fixed divine commands that legitimize moral, authority-sanctioned harm. Through a wealth of references and exhaustive research, Sibilla demonstrates that...

Imperial Religious Policy from Constantine to Theodosius I by Ferdinando Emilio Abbate offers a concise account of one of the most consequential transformations in Western history. Covering the period from 311 to 394, the book traces Christianity’s evolution from a marginal and often suspect faith...

David B. Oppenheimer’s The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea offers an intellectual history of how diversity came to be understood as a foundational value across education, law, science, and public life. Drawing on legal history, philosophy, and social science, Oppenheimer traces the...

Brian Townsend's Reality Ain't Real takes a deep dive into the things that we have learned to be true and lets us question our beliefs about reality. The book covers the reason we follow the herd and are afraid to point out the abnormalities in...

Sweetness & Light: A True-Crime Memoir by Melinda Worth Popham explores family, identity, and the complexities of human relationships in mid-20th-century America. Popham weaves her personal narrative with historical events, capturing the essence of a bygone era while examining the impact of family dynamics and...