Spies, espionage, and intelligence operations during the American Revolution have long captured the public's imagination, thanks in part to popular books and television series. While these dramatizations highlight a captivating aspect of the Revolutionary War, they often blur the line between fact and fiction. Join historian Charles Dewey to uncover the real stories of the […]

Tireless chronicler of Manhattan's building history, John Tauranac finds a new angle on the city's past in his new book New York's Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age. Beginning each chapter with a different building of the era, he delves into the social history on site. As […]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. In celebration, McNally Jackson is hosting a night of conversation about what makes this book such an unforgettable romp, about the delightfully errant and endearing archetypes (Gus and Call, Janey and Clara), and about why it resonates so much.