21 September 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power, ending China’s Hundred Days’ Reform I always love it when I find great books for...

9 September 1543: Mary Stuart crowned Queen of the Scots When Shakespeare penned the line, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” he...

I was quite literally awakened this morning not by my alarm but instead by the incessant buzzing of constant news notifications. As I...

Heroic Women of the Art World By Eugene H. Pool Pages: 200 Ages: 12+ Subject: Art History Publisher: Tumblehome Despite its – in my...

18 July 64 A.D.: The Great Fire of Rome The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh Pages: 192 Series:...

Sometimes while searching for books for one post I come across a title that doesn't really fit but is too wonderful not to highlight....

16 July 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, is born in Borge, Østfeld, Norway. Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment...

10 May 1869: Transcontinental railroad completed as the ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Point, Utah Iron Rails, Iron Men,...

9 May 1887: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and the English a look at real American cowboys and...

8 May 1429: End of the English siege of the French city of Orléans Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley Nonfiction/Illustrated biography...

7 May 1919: Birthday of Eva Perón, politically powerful wife of Argentine President Juan Perón Eva Perón: First Lady of Argentina by...

6 May 1942: Last Allied bastion in the Philippines, the American garrison on Corregidor Island, surrenders to the Japanese The...

5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte, former ruler of France, dies in exile on St. Helena Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin...

4 May 1886: Haymarket Riot in Chicago, as violence erupts between police and labor movement protesters City of Grit and Gold by Maud...

2 May 1892: Manfred, Freiherr (Baron) von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") born in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland) The Red...

by Elizabeth Mann (Wonders of the World Book) Nonfiction/Engineering Recommended for: Dialectic students 48 pages Mikaya Press This is a...

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger Nonfiction 251...

Chocolate: Riches from the Rain Forest by: Robert Burleigh Most books that I read and review are a result of a conscious choice based...

Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow In 1938, in the United...

by Caren Stelson This oral history, which is laid out like a larger format youth nonfiction history book (as opposed to a biography),...