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Kidnapped on the Frontier
by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Daniel Boone heard the piercing shrieks coming from the river and recognized them as only a parent could. He was too late to see a group of Native...
Leszek Kolakowski: “Totalitarian Regimes Seek Control Of Human Memory”
Ex-Communist Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski once said “we learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are”. This idea of a...
A Tour of the Belasco Theatre
by Mariah Fredericks It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to do a deep dive into a subject near and dear to your heart. When researching Death of a Showman,...
The Escape of the Nine
by Gwen Strauss The Nine follows the true story of author Gwen Strauss’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German...
The Philadelphia: Our Most Evocative National Relic
by Jack Kelly I have traveled to Revolutionary-era battlefields and forts. I’ve examined countless eighteenth-century muskets, uniforms, swords, and shoe buckles. I’ve looked at...
Franz Jägerstätter Is The Most Famous German Conscientious Objector In History
A conscientious objector is an individual who has “claimed the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.” The...
An Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion
by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even...