On June 2, 1972, Roger Holder, a Vietnam veteran, and his girlfriend Cathy Kerkow, an underemployed high school graduate,…
November 1, 2013In her new book “The Idealist” Nina Munk, who followed Jeffrey Sachs as he developed what became the Millennium…
October 25, 2013This evening there was a book launch party at Plymouth Church for Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church in the Civil War Era: a Ministry of Freedom, (History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013) a new book by church member Frank Decker, assisted by Lois Rosebrooks, Plymouth’s Director of History Ministry Services. The book tells the story of Plymouth’s role […]
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In the summer of 1994, the Jacobs family: Joe, a well-known poet, Isabel, a war correspondent, and 14-year-old Nina,…
October 18, 2013“Consider the Fork,” Bee Wilson’s entertaining, eminently readable history of kitchen technology, is an ode to the everyday, with…
October 11, 2013We tend to forget, in the United States, that the Second World War actually began in September 1939, not…
October 4, 2013Eric Kennedy had it all: a wife, a child, success as a real estate broker, and even a year…
September 27, 2013Between its recent declaration of bankruptcy, and the news that the Detroit Institute of Arts may be forced to…
September 20, 2013Celia Cassill, widowed young but left “comfortably provided,” has promised herself that she will live life for her dead…
September 6, 2013Part memoir, part exploration of sibling (mostly fraternal) relationships through history, George Colt’s descriptions of growing up as the…
July 26, 2013