J. Robert Oppenheimer is a tragic figure of American history whose accomplishments were all overshadowed by one thing; he was the father o...

This is unusual for me because I don’t normally review anything other than books on this blog. Still, here we are, and today I’m talking abo...

I always love a good nautical adventure—be it fiction or nonfiction—but this story by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman, "The Finest...

I loved "Hamilton" the musical, so I was over the moon to listen to this book, "Hamilton The Revolution," by Lin-Manuel ...

So, soon after starting Chernow's excellent biography, I decided that I wanted to get the story of Ulysses S. Grant straight from the ma...

Set phasers to maximum pretentious, Obscurists, as today I’m going to talk about a keystone document or rather documents supporting the cons...

We're doing another space book, Obscurists. Well, sort of, it is more a history of NASA and some of the most talented women to ever work...

You know, oddly enough, even though this book isn't specifically about this, but it wasn't until I read "The Ten-Cent Plague...

I recall many an idiotic conversation where it was positioned to me that black men and women just don’t contribute as much. An immediate ref...

In this review, we’re talking about the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It tells t...

Time for something light and fun, like the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, oh and murder—mustn’t forget the murder. Okay, so maybe not so, lig...

This is a kind of book that I never thought I would read a decade ago. I had never been too interested in politics of any kind for a long, l...

" Ancient Civilizations of North America " by the great courses taught by Edwin Barnhart is eye-opening in how little indigenous p...