What does patriotism actually look like in everyday life? In All American Patriotism, Rachel Campos-Duffy brings together deeply personal stories from familiar Fox News personalities, veterans, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and public figures to explore what America means to them. Their stories range from childhood road trips and Fourth of July traditions to military sacrifice, immigrant perseverance, […]
Whose America Do We Remember?
What does America’s past look like when you stop reading about it—and start traveling through it? In This Land Is Your Land, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage journeys across the country, visiting battlefields, museums, monuments, historic homes, reenactments, and even Disneyland to see how Americans tell the story of their nation. Along the way, she […]
The Expedition You Don’t Know
The Lewis and Clark expedition is often remembered as a heroic journey across an untamed American West. But the real story was far larger—and far more complicated. In This Vast Enterprise, Craig Fehrman reexamines the famous expedition through the people whose contributions, ambitions, and conflicts shaped its outcome. Alongside Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were […]
When Biology Becomes the Weapon
What if the next global catastrophe began with something no one could see? In Biological War, Annie Jacobsen imagines a genetically engineered airborne plague escaping from a high-security laboratory—and shows how quickly a single accident could spiral into a worldwide disaster. Within days, hospitals are overwhelmed, governments scramble to contain the outbreak, military forces mobilize, […]
Liberty’s Darkest Contradiction
America was founded on a revolutionary promise: all men are created equal. Yet at the very moment the nation embraced liberty, millions remained enslaved—and Native Americans were being pushed from their lands. In The Great Contradiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the uncomfortable paradox at the heart of America’s founding. Through figures such […]
What Comes After Trump?
What happens when the political crisis is over—but the institutions left behind are fundamentally changed? In The Day After, progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen looks beyond the Trump era and asks what America should do next. His answer is not simply to restore old norms or return to politics as usual. Cohen argues that Democrats […]
Shipwrecked Far From Home🚢
In 1832, the American whaleship Mentor slammed into a reef near Palau, leaving its surviving crew stranded thousands of miles from home. But the shipwreck was only the beginning. What followed was an extraordinary struggle for survival involving dangerous ocean crossings, shifting alliances, captivity, starvation, violence, and desperate attempts at rescue. Some island communities welcomed […]
Inside Trump’s Power Play
Donald Trump returned to the White House more prepared, more powerful, and more determined to settle old scores. In Regime Change, award-winning journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan take readers behind the scenes of Trump’s second term, revealing an administration built around loyalty, retribution, and instinct. Drawing on hundreds of insider interviews, they uncover the […]
The War Below
Beneath the surface of the world’s oceans, another World War II was being fought—one defined by stealth, intelligence, technological innovation, and extraordinary sacrifice. In War Beneath the Sea, acclaimed naval historian Peter Padfield explores the submarine campaigns that helped determine the outcome of the war. From German U-boats hunting Allied convoys in the Atlantic to […]
Liberty Wasn’t Quiet
Eric Metaxas’s Revolution brings America’s founding struggle to life as more than a war for independence. Written for the nation’s 250th anniversary, the book traces the Revolution from early colonial resistance to the final victory at Yorktown, showing how faith, courage, sacrifice, and leadership shaped the birth of the United States. From James Otis’s courtroom […]
