Archive - A Little History

11 new/newish books that'll make great gifts this December

Put a bit of murder and mayhem under the tree.

Dec 3 •

November 2024

Elyse Graham on BOOK AND DAGGER

"A story about the librarians and scholars who invented modern spycraft."

Nov 26 •

Gilded Age scandal and Hollywood lore

Plus the Nazi-era Jewish actor who hid in plain sight

Nov 22 •

The case of the missing novelist

A stranger-than-fiction mystery and media spectacle from 1920s England

Nov 8 •

Four new books to check out in November

WWII London murders, Roaring Twenties Wallis Simpson, and a double dose of J. Edgar Hoover

Nov 5 •

October 2024

Two inch nails, micro waist

With a pale white feline face

Oct 29 •

Abbott Kahler on EDEN UNDONE

"The stranger-than-fiction true story of a group of Europeans who tried to find utopia on a remote Galápagos island in the 1930s."

Oct 17 •

How a 1970s Brooklyn bank robbery went Hollywood

"When we get there, the cops can kill us then. I’m not afraid to die."

Oct 12 •

Five new books to check out in October

Nazi-fighters, Prohibition firebrands, tabloids, absinthe, and Hitchcock

Oct 1 •

September 2024

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