Rumors and dark stories flew along the rutted dirt roads of colonial America, bearing tales that had virtually no basis in reality. A new book uses rumor to understand the rumormongers.

In the wake of the strife and collapse of Slobodan Mlosevic's Yugoslavia, a large group of war criminals had to be hunted down and delivered for trial. A riveting new book tells the story.

A powerful new book looks at the ideological connections between the Armenian Genocide and the Nazi death-camps that followed twenty years later

In his first term as president, George Washington packed up and went on long, rattling tours of the new United States, to see the people and let them see him. A new book follows along.

A provocative new book re-examines the startling power and, yes, originality of Roman literature

A stimulating new study of the autobiographies Frederick Douglass continued writing throughout his life