BOOK REVIEWThe Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipesby Mark Kurlansky 2023 About the AuthorMark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Milk!, Havana, Paper, The Big Oyster, 1968, Salt, The Basque History of the World, Cod, and Salmon, among other titles.He has received the Dayton … Continue reading The Core of an Onion

BOOK REVIEWByzantium Unbound by Anthony Kaldellis 2019 About the AuthorAnthony Kaldellis (Professor and Chair of Classics at the Ohio State University) has published many books on various aspects of Byzantine history, culture, and literature. About the BookFor a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the … Continue reading Byzantium Unbound

BOOK REVIEWArmada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588by Colin Martin & Geoffrey Parker 2023 About the AuthorsColin Martin was reader in maritime archaeology at St Andrews University and has directed excavations on three Armada shipwrecks. Geoffrey Parker teaches history at The Ohio State University and has published forty books. About the Book“Those who … Continue reading Armada

BOOK REVIEWJFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesiaby Greg Poulgrain 2020 About the AuthorDr. Greg Poulgrain is the author of three other books about Indonesia, including The Genesis of Konfrontasi—Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia 1945-1965. He is working in conjunction with University Bung Karno (UBK), Jakarta. About the Book“What did Allen Dulles know that meant JFK and … Continue reading JFK vs. Allen Dulles

BOOK REVIEWThe Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafiaby Paul Moses 2023 About the AuthorPaul Moses is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at CUNY-Brooklyn College and a former reporter and editor at Newsday. He is the author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's … Continue reading The Italian Squad

BOOK REVIEWFollowing Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empireby John Keahey 2023 About the AuthorJOHN KEAHEY, author of such books as Hidden Tuscany and A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea, is a veteran newspaper and wire-service journalist who spent forty-five years in and around journalism. He … Continue reading Following Caesar

BOOK REVIEWOur Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's Warby Lisa Brooks 2019 About the AuthorLisa Brooks is professor of English and American studies at Amherst College. She is the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. About the Book"In this mesmerizing and methodologically bold reassessment of King … Continue reading Our Beloved Kin