“So how to tell of the life of a magician whose vocation was politics? A simple biography was out of the question. All of the hard research led to an idea. Why not travel back in time for one night to meet the old wizard himself in a car ride that actually did take place at the end of his life? Once there, he could tell his story directly to one of his descendants—a transference of family memories that just may have had national significance. Surely a magician could accomplish such a meeti...

Set in early Texas between the end of the Mexican War and the dawn of the American Civil War, The Bloody Frontier is the third in a series of four historic westerns written by Jeffery Robenalt. The Saga of a Texas Ranger continues as Caleb McAdams recruits his own company of Rangers to deal with Comanche depredations on the western frontier and the ravages of Mexican bandits along the Rio Grande. In the midst of this deadly struggle, Caleb must deal with an unknown assassin in his own rank...

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding would become a Senator with the power to ...

Set in the newly annexed state of Texas, circa 1846 to 1849, Star Over Texas is the second volume in a series of four historic westerns written by Jeffery Robenalt. The Saga of a Texas Ranger continues, as Caleb McAdams and his fellow Rangers volunteer for service in the Mexican-American War. From fierce encounters in the streets of Monterrey and the plains of Buena Vista, to deadly struggles with Mexican guerrillas on the road to Mexico City, the action in this rousing adventure saga is n...

Though the Republic of Texas existed as a sovereign nation for just nine years, the legacy lives on in the names that distinguish the landscape of the Lone Star State. Austin, Houston, Travis, Lamar, Seguin, Burnet, Bowie, Zavala, Crockett--these historical giants, often at odds, fought through their differences to achieve freedom from Mexico and Santa Anna, establishing a republic fit to be the twenty-eighth state to join the Union. In nineteen historical tales, Jeffery Robenalt chronicle...

Set in the Republic of Texas, circa1840, Saga of a Texas Ranger is the first in a series of of four historic Westerns written by Jeffery Robenalt. Sixteen year old Caleb McAdams and his family sell their prosperous farm in Tennessee and head for Texas to escape a deadly blood feud, but find that danger also lurks on the Texas frontier. While Caleb is out rounding up wild longhorns, his family is massacred by the Comanches during the Great Raid of 1840. Seeking revenge, Caleb volunteers to ...

The Queer Museum examines how relationships between institutions and LGBTQ+ communities function and how they help to define queer museum practice.Analysing what it means to queer the museum in Western contexts, the book builds upon and challenges texts about inclusionary, activist museum practice and discusses the ways in which Othered communities are engaged with and represented. Arguing that an institution’s understanding of queerness is directly related to the kind, an...

Meet the overlooked women in history who loved, nurtured, and defended the famed American scientist and founding father.“ . . . highlights a side of Ben Franklin too often ignored by historians . . . and provides a necessary reminder that the women who came into his life are as deserving of our attention as Ben himself.” —Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary MothersEveryone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of...

A mystery from one of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's four Queens of Crime: a suspicious death and a treasured heirloom spell trouble for the gentleman sleuth."Wonderfully plotted…. A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent."— The Washington Post"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light."—Agatha ChristieEstranged from his fathe...

CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the YearThe untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history.It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. J...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HOLOCAUST MEMOIRFor readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Watchmakers, a powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective—the story of a son’s quest to understand his father, a heroic, complicated Jewish survivor—and to uncover the hidden past and desperate choices he made when the Nazis recruited him to police his own people in their Polish ghetto.

This "magisterial history" presents a new perspective on Thomas Morton, his colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans ( Wall Street Journal).Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamou...