Richard T. Cahill Jr., author of Hauptmann’s Ladder is one of the experts interviewed in a new documentary on the Lindbergh kidnapping. Watch it here.
Click here to find out more about Hauptmann’s Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.
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“Paul Taylor’s very welcome new book, THE MOST COMPLETE POLITICAL MACHINE EVER KNOWN: THE NORTH’S UNION LEAGUES IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. . . is by far the most detailed study of how they operated.”
Find out more about the book.

The Civil War Books Review looks at Paul Taylor’s “The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known”: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War.
“Dedicated to the perpetuity of a nation in the midst of its greatest existential crisis, Union League members collectively served as the Union’s greatest private defender. Better and more completely than anyone before, […]

“My guest is George R. Dekle Sr., former prosecutor and prolific author. He discusses his book, Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts, and draws comparisons between the Helen Pott’s husband, Carlyle Harris (who would be tried and convicted for her murder in the sensational New York case)  and Ted Bundy, whom Dekle […]

Be sure to catch an informative interview with J. Gregory Acken, author of Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865 on PA Books, PCN Select.
See the interview (subscription required).
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The New York Times has “rounded up some glorious new titles to keep any reader happy, hydrated and cool: pulse-pounding thrillers, delectable cookbooks, eerie true-crime stories to stand your hair on end.”
Amongst the hair raisers is KSUP’s The Belle of Bedford Avenue by Virginia A. McConnell.
“Everybody loves a bad girl — in crime stories, if […]

From Sport in American History:
“Ultimately, Baseball Goes West is a well-organized, accessible presentation of the motivations and factors involved in the relocation of the Dodgers and Giants to California and a survey of the franchises’ histories since the move. It would be most appropriate for baseball fans and provides scholars with numerous topics for further research and […]

Civil War History, the foremost scholarly journal focused on the American Civil War, is expanding its program to make online content available to all interested readers.
The journal, published by the Kent State University Press and overseen by a board of internationally renowned scholars, is well into its seventh decade. “While we continue to have substantial […]

We all have the capacity for the leaping thought of a poem, to be coached in the right way, to find some emotional truth, or to recall a memory that only we can tell. We all have the capacity for a poetic voice. It really becomes a thread that empowers communities and gives them a sense of themselves.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, historian Peter S. Carmichael has named “This Infernal War”: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard as one of the five best books on the lives of Civil War Soldiers.
Read more about “This Infernal War”