Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also became foundational in the history of American ph[...]

The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin. The enthralling true story of a family living in Stalin's Russia, seen though the eyes of a young boy growing up in a family of Kazakh nomads. The author describes scouring the fields with his mother for a few ears of corn, and journeying alone across frozen[...]