Editors’ Choice

Heart of the Land
Essays on Last Great Places

Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor

Fascinatin’ Rhythm
American Syncopation

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Is trial by jury the essential underpinning of our system of justice or—as more and more critics charge—a relic so flawed it should perhaps even be abolished? An experienced trial judge examines the historical evidence in the case.

Drawn to the story of the fearsome Confederate raider by a modern act of violence, the author finds a strange epic in the Rebel’s restless remains

Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas

A historian of American portraits tells how he determines whether a picture is authentic—and why that authenticity matters

A report from the field on the battle to authenticate what its owner still hopes is the earliest Lincoln photograph