Johnna Ryan reviews Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome by Paul Chrystal (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Michael Jimenez reviews Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine by Laurence Leamer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One by Timothy Larsen (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026)

Christian McNamara reviews This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

The Marseillaise in all its glory

Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence by Lauren Duval (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2025)

Saija Wilson reviews Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad (William Morrow, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald (Knopf, 2026)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal by Quentin Skinner (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Matthew Sparacio reviews Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution by Travis Glasson (Yale University Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller (Prometheus Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)

From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980)

Matthew Sparacio reviews Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)

Roger Chapman reviews State of War: A History of World War II in Florida by Anthony D. Atwood (University Press of Florida, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).

Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin (Harvard University Press, 2025)

From the Stacks: Nadya Williams wishes we had some of the works of Tacitus that are permanently out of print.

Saija Wilson reviews Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder (Yale University Press, 2024)