CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Life, America, and the Road to Key West
After a wandering motorcycle journey from San Diego to Key West, Geoffrey “Jefe” Smith ’71 shares his fascination with the…
Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front
As Northern civilians struggled to understand their role in the Civil War that was being fought hundreds of miles away…
Meeting China Halfway: How to Diffuse the Emerging U.S.-China Rivalry
In Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging U.S.-China Rivalry, Lyle J. Goldstein *02 tackles the ever-rising tensions in…
Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship
For much of the past century, says Rob Garfield ’67, men have operated under the rules of the Male Code…
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist
Conflicting claims about data appear in the media every day, so how can people figure out what is right? Using…
Wine and Economics: Transacting the Elixir of Life
Wine and the wine trade have been culturally important since the earliest days of our civilization. In Wine and Economics…
Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” — the documents about Spanish sacred history fabricated by a little-known Jesuit priest — shaped scholarly…
Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire
Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire examines how the interplay between Western European economic theories and the traditional Muslim…
Fear, Fathers, and Family: In Search of the American Dream
When Jon J. Masters ’58 was 10, his parents cut off their families and became Episcopalians in an attempt to…
In the Cause of Humanity: Creating Juried Democracies to New-Model the American Revolution
In the Cause of Humanity: Creating Juried Democracies to New-Model the American Revolution, Howard DeLong *60 offers a new understanding…
Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal That Made America
The history and importance of iron and steel are traced from ancient to modern times in Steel: From Mine to…
The Birth Spoon
In The Birth Spoon, high-school student Harry uncovers dark and deadly secrets about his small Appalachian community while completing an…
Enterprise Cybersecurity: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats
Enterprise Cybersecurity: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats explains how an organization of any size can…
May We Waken One by One
In May We Waken One by One, Daniel C. Bryant ’61 tells the story of Beth Barton, who meets and…
James Wilson: An Introduction to His Life and Work
James Wilson is one of the lesser-known Founding Fathers, and — in the mind of Maynard Garrison ’50 — undeservedly…
Fatal Reservations: A Key West Food Critic Mystery
Fatal Reservations by Roberta Isleib ’75, who writes under the pen name Lucy Burdette, continues the story of food critic…
