Modern Italy through one writer's complicated life.

A Jewish track star of the early 20th century.

Three fresh angles on religion in the American South.

From 1789 to 1815, in Gordon Wood's telling.

Three noteworthy titles from a big stack on the life of our greatest president.

The character of the DDR.

The long-awaited new book by Neil Sheehan, author of "A Bright Shining Lie."

A biography of the intrepid Mary Slessor, missionary to Nigeria.

The curious history of the Ten Lost Lost Tribes.

Religion and U.S. foreign policy in the first phase of the Cold War.

How not to read hagiography.

A conversation with historian Barry Strauss, author of a new book on Spartacus.

How to resist cozy, lazy, government monopolies.

Celebrating Wallace Stegner's centenary.

James Fenimore Cooper.

Lessons from reform movements a century ago.

A new history of U.S. foreign policy.

Blame Abe.

Squabbling over the Holy Sepulchre.

In the archives of the Israeli-Palestine conflict