Is Winter Ending? Well, no, winter isn’t ending. We’ve had a bit of better weather but also some bitter weather. We took a walk under cloudy...

I’ve reread two Icelandic mystery stories by  Eva Björg Ægisdóttir.  Good ones!  The series now has four books, and the author will soon pub...

"I focused on images of voters, of all political beliefs, queuing up in circumstances as varied as rain in Georgia, cold in Montana and...

Personal narratives about the experience of slavery in America and in the Caribbean region were an important influence in the anti-slavery m...

James McWilliams book, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America,  contains a number of very fascinating historical deta...

I have just read a fascinating book dealing with the intellectual and social history of the United States. I found it because its author, Ne...