Yale Professor of American History Beverly Gage is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” Gage’s most recent book, “This Land Is your Land,” is the result of her attempt to summarize American history on the eve of the nation’s sesquicentennial. To accomplish this, Gage took extensive road trips, 13 in number, to locales heavily invested in the history of the country. Some of her trips visited states: Texas, Virgi

Sage political advisors encouraged him to “go slow,” but young Newsom only knew one speed. One month after his 2008 inauguration as mayor of San Francisco, 38-year-old Gavin Newsom allowed same sex couples to get married at City Hall. In 28 days, more than 4000 couples were married before the California Supreme Court stopped the ceremonies and voided the marriages. In 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that states must allow same-sex marriages. Many barrier-breaking actions mar

Early in the morning of November 29, 2019, a young man plunged to his death from the balcony of a luxury apartment overlooking London’s Thames River. His body was not discovered until four days later, three days after his parents notified the London police that he was missing. Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His recent book, “London Falling,” details the events leading up to Zac Brettler’s death and the painstaking efforts of his parents to learn t

Michelle Collins Anderson’s, “The Moonshine Women,” is a novel full of beautiful  descriptions—the land, the animals, the people, the scents, and even tastes all come to life with her prose. The story has it all, family drama, romance, adventure, and even a Cinderella moment or two. The book is set in the early 1900s when most farmers in the Ozarks made moonshine for their own consumption and trading. Grandma Lidy passed down the Strong family recipe to her son Hiram and he