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Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz grew up in northern Virginia, close enough to Antietam and Bull Run to absorb the Civil War through his pores. As a kid, he staged battles with plastic soldiers on his bedroom floor and devoured histories of the conflict. When he returned to the American South in the mid-1990s as a Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Prairie Fires
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder landed in bookstores in November 2017 and promptly won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The following spring it took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Those awards are not decoration; they tell you what kind of book this is. Not a fan appreciation, not a gentle…
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The Johnstown Flood
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam gave way after days of heavy rain, releasing twenty million tons of water in a single catastrophic surge down the Little Conemaugh River valley toward Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The wall of water, somewhere between forty and seventy-five feet high at its peak and moving at roughly forty miles…
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