In This Issue

With the country's 250th birthday on the horizon, there is an abundance of historical inquiry and personal reflection hitting shelves. Alex Wright's Empire of Ink presents "a vital reminder" of how print media shaped the American Revolution and what followed. Lois Romano's An Inconvenient Widow pays a "bittersweet and thorough tribute" to Mary Todd Lincoln and her legacy. Meanwhile, Vincent Coppola's "humorous yet often wrenching" Gowanus Crossing traces more recent and personal routes through immigrant communities of New York City, and Jonathan Weber's closely observed City on the Edge investigates the 1990s tech boom in San Francisco whose reverberations continue to impact our lives every day. Of course, these barely scratch the surface of the last two and half centuries, but what intriguing entry points they are!