Thanks to the folks at Penguin, I am giving away a hardcover copy of MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French. It’s the best historical true crime I’ve read since The Devil in the White City. (My full review is here) To enter, please: 1. Leave a comment, with link to a Facebook or Twitter post…
FOUND PHOTO: Car Rally – 1915
I found this photo on an old scrap book page. The page label said this was a car rally in 1915.
REVIEW: AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR by Christine Sismondo
A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops As someone who grew up on episodes of Cheers and lived in a colonial-era tavern and inn, I suppose I might have been somewhat predisposed to be enamored by the subject. But if you stop to consider, I think most people are. The gathering…
todaysdocument: August 26, 1944 – German snipers firing on celebrating Parisians Crowds of Parisian
REVIEW: THE HEAVENS ARE EMPTY by Avrom Bendavid-Val
My introduction to this mystical place was in the film Everything Is Illuminated (based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer). While Foer’s story is a novel, it does base its setting of “Trochimbrad” on the real life Trochenbrod. But why this place? Of all the lives ended, towns burned, hopes crushed,…