Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »

The life of the city of Lawrence, Kansas in carefully told, down to the most minute detail, in its daily record book. According to this report in the Lawrence Journal,… Read more »

In the wake of the two month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we asked Lewis Lapham, the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and the former editor of Harper’s, what books he… 18 / Read more »

Saying he was the victim of a “concerted effort” by “nitpickers” and “enemies” who “are full of rage at our success,” Bill O’Reilly has defended his new book Killing Lincoln:… Read more »

On Friday, Willamette Week posted an interview with James Tracy, the co-author (along with Amy Sonnie) of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power—the rarely told history of white… Read more »

Interviewed at The Guardian about his new book Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany, author Rudolph Herzog talks about how he wrote the book partly as a way of confronting… Read more »

Or how about the one the starts “Trotsky, Lenin, and Litvinov are walking through a small Russian town…” For the punch lines of these Nazi-era jokes, you’ll have to read the… Read more »

It’s a publisher’s worst nightmare: A new book from Holt about the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan, The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, has gotten off to… Read more »

Monday was “the 80th anniversary of the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (My Struggle),” notes Carlin Romano in a Philadelphia Inquirer commentary. “You didn’t miss anything. No critical panels.… Read more »

Scholars from Korea, China and Japan have gotten together to publish a “joint history textbook” — an accomplishment that an unattributed commentary in the Korea Times notes is “little short… Read more »