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This morning's feature at The Page 69 Test is Sharon Begley 's Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain . From the publisher : Is it rea...

David Shenk 's The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Sci...

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is the author of Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West . I asked him what he h...

Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, reviews Eric...

Here at the CftAR: Thomas C. Schelling's influential books. I can think of no social scientist's work which influenced my training a...

The Page 69 Series is getting awfully large and starting to crowd out some of the other postings on the blog. So I gave it a home of its ow...

Last week, Michael Brooks of Historymike published a review of Anatol Lieven's Chechnya : Tombstone of Russian Power . If you don'...

Matthew Warshauer is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. His new book is Andrew Jackson and the Politi...

John Nadler is the author of Searching for Sofia and, more recently, A Perfect Hell : The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers...