Audiobooks Narrated by Ian Putnam

The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war.

Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness.

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals...

The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the market with prophecies about American decline.

For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once widely shared, how and why did it disappear?

Bourbon whiskey is perhaps Kentucky's most distinctive product. Despite bourbon's prominence in the social and economic life of the Bluegrass state...

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts...

In The Practice of Folklore: Essays Toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life.

Algorithms-rules written into software-shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits.

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050.