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In his history The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The Boston Globe recounts the story

James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...

In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...

Paul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...

Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.

Imperial Twilight dissects the causes of the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty in China in the 1840s.

Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.

Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.

Seventy-five years ago today on June 23, 1945, U.S. Marine and Army forces captured Okinawa.

In his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...

A New Chapter Begins

My father’s mother was a Linscott. Her family came to the New World and settled in Maine in the 1600s.

I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.

Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...

In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War.

The focus of Gwynne’s book is Quanah Parker, the last wartime Comanche chief, who ironically was the son of Cynthia Parker...

This friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos is documented nicely in the book The Ambulance Drivers by James McGrath Morris.