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 […]
Behind the Back Bedroom
In 1976, a quiet home in Yakima, Washington, became the center of a case that would haunt everyone connected to it. In The Back Bedroom, bestselling true-crime author Gregg Olsen investigates how a deeply isolated household fell under the influence of self-proclaimed prophet Leon Cunningham. Convinced that the end of the world was near, Leon’s […]
What Made Her Walk Away?
Evan Barker didn’t just support the Democratic Party—she built her career inside it. From Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign to progressive fundraising networks, congressional races, and national political organizations, Barker spent years believing she was helping build a movement for working Americans. Then, little by little, that belief began to crack. In Nothing Left, Barker takes […]
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 […]
How Systems Lose Their Balance
What happens when institutions weaken, accountability fades, and too much power becomes concentrated in too few hands? In The Fix, former US Attorney Barbara McQuade explores how corruption, institutional pressure, misinformation, and declining public trust can gradually weaken democratic systems. Drawing on legal history, public policy, and real-world examples, she examines how organizations and governments […]
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 […]
