State & Local

Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities were determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John was tried and convicted, receiving a sentence of life in prison. The key piece of evidence against Silas John was a rock found near Margaret's body, scratched with his initials, “S. J. E."

A spirited look at Sleepy Hollow's haunted corners, local lore, and its connection to one of America's most famous ghost stories. National bestselling and Edgar Award–winning travel writer J. W. Ocker investigates the town that inspired Washington Irving's famous short story, "The Legend of...

West Virginia is what happens when a group of mountain counties looks at the rest of their state and says, "Absolutely not."Created during the Civil War through one of the strangest political maneuvers in American history, West Virginia became a land of coal booms, labor wars, moonshine legends...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 · A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Fall National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush...

Bloomsbury presents California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California, by Miriam Pawel read by Christina Delaine. "Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "A must read."—KAI BIRD "In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize...

Four presidents murdered. Four more who barely survived. And the attacks keep coming.Since Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, the presidency of the United States has been the most dangerous job in the world. In this gripping account, author John Dean Bush takes readers...

“Brian Kilmeade provides us with a variation of Profiles in Courage focused on our Founders. It ranges from John Adams, who made the controversial decision to legally represent British soldiers who were part of the Boston Massacre, to his son John Quincy Adams, who defends the enslaved...

New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment. It is also the Land of Contradictions, Complications, Questionable Decisions, and Some Really Good Green Chile.New Mexico has been home to ancient civilizations, Spanish settlers, Mexican revolutionaries, outlaws, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and...

In the tradition of the James Herriot classic All Creatures Great and Small, a heartfelt coming-of-age story of small-town life, young love, and the human condition in the American Midwest of the 1970s. When newly minted doctor Robert Bradley set out for his first medical post in the windswept...

When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been in existence for seven seasons and were tasked with the monumental burden of representing the still-fledgling American Football League against the NFL’s team of the decade. The Chiefs won their...

A foundational classic in the historiography of the American Civil War. In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Civil War Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for...

A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and engagingly written account by an...

Texas is more than a destination—it is a land of legends, history, and endless horizons. In Exploring Texas—A Journey Through History & Must-See Destinations, listeners are taken across one of America's most diverse and fascinating states. From the Spanish missions of San Antonio and the music-filled streets of Austin to the deserts of Big Bend and the coastal charm of the Gulf Coast, this book uncovers the places, cultures, and stories that define the Lone Star State.

In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or “pipelines,” through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole.

Indianapolis was imagined before it existed—a capital sketched onto a map and carved from the quiet of the Midwestern forest. Over two centuries, that bold experiment grew into a city of movement, ambition, and invention. In A Brief History of Indianapolis, Derek Monaghan traces that journey with cinematic depth, following the city from its earliest survey lines to its place on the national stage.