‘Bubble in the Sun’ Review: How Con Men Got RichSelling Florida Swamp Land
Two million buyers paid the price for their naiveté when the 1920s land boom collapsed
‘Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life’ Review
The battle to free the civil rights leader from a notorious Georgia prison was central to the 1960 presidential election
‘New York, New York, New York’ Review: Sins and Songs of the City
Gotham lurches from crisis to crisis, but sorry, Jerry Ford, it hasn't dropped dead yet
‘Holding Back the River’ Review: The Water Is Wild and Can Never Be Tamed
Attempts to master America's mighty waterways are forever doomed to fail
‘The Age of Wood’ Review: The Simple Stuff That Created Civilization
When protohumans climbed down from trees, they chopped them down and used them to create a new world
Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
Hot Issues in 1918 Midterm Election Roil U.S. Politics Today
Wilson's war was almost over and women's suffrage was near, but there was a pandemic and the country was polarized over Prohibition
George Washington’s Last Hours, Remembered As Heroic, Were Certainly Hellish
Despite intense suffering, the former president faced death with courage and strength of character
‘Fears of a Setting Sun’ Review: How Founders Lost Faith in American Experiment
Of the opening night cast, only James Madison maintained confidence in the success of the new nation
‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: When the Superpowers Nearly Started World War III
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment
‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ Review: Behind The Scenes of Hollywood’s Famous Rhinestone Bromance
Midnight Cowboy: The best film that should never have been made
‘Philip Roth: A Biography’ Review: A Postmortem Defense of an Irascible Author
Blake Bailey demonstrates that it's not always prudent to get the last word, even from the grave
Egotistic Brit General Turned the World Upside Down at Yorktown
The Americans won because the King's best strategist guessed wrong about where Washington and his allies would fight
Maine’s Greatest War Hero Faces Down Another Insurrection
When political parties' fight for power turns violent, the only man capable of restoring order was the defender of Little Round Top
‘White House Designer and Builder James Hoban’ Celebrates the Son of Eire Who Built America’s Most Famous House
A Kilkenny farmer's son executed America's most revered neoclassical building and rebuilt it after British invasion
The Supreme Court Decision That Changed America: Brown v. Board of Education
Finally, the justices overturned Jim Crow, tossing out Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' standard
