Crow Mary is a compelling story with strong characters, an interesting plot, and a feeling of what it must have been like to be a Native American woman at a time when her world was irrevocably changing.

Squanto's story is not the simple story of helping the Pilgrims that I thought it was. It involves kidnappings, pestilence, politics, and power struggles.

Timothy Egan's, Fever in the Heartland, about the rise of the KKK in Indiana in the 1920s, is a powerful account of D.C. Stephenson and political power gone awry.

Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, is a combination of two stories: Chicago's 1893 World's Fair and America's first serial killer.

Laurie Lico Albanese's novel "Hester" is an imaginative guess of Hawthorne's inspiration for The Scarlet Letter and Hester Prynne.

Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night, published in 2016, is the stunning story of how America came to be electrified in the late 1800s.