Potomac Books

12/03/2025

"IF I CAN GET HOME THIS FALL is a wonderful addition to the ever-growing corpus of published soldiers’ letters collections. Well-researched and excellently edited, it is sure to become one of the 'go to' sources for scholars examining common soldiers’ experiences," writes Tim Talbott for Emerging Civil War.

  If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and A Cause in the Civil War. By Tyler Alexander. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2025. Hardcover, 344 pp., $36.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott As consumers of Civil War history we are fortunate that publishers continue making collections of soldiers’...

12/02/2025

FUJI FIRE is Chas Henry Fuji Fire’s exhaustive four-year, two-continent investigation that provides insight into what many have called the U.S. Marine Corps’ worst-ever peacetime disaster.

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11/27/2025

Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award, FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE by Katya Cengel is an indelible portrait of this historical epoch and a memoir of the highest order.

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11/25/2025

THE SN**CH RACKET by Carolyn Cox is a spellbinding account of terrifying abductions of prominent citizens, gangsters invading homes with machine guns, the struggles of law enforcement, and the courage of families doing whatever it took to bring home the ransomed.

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11/24/2025

"This is the first comprehensive publication of the document in its entirety. . . . our debt to John Appleton for his reminiscences hardly needs be mentioned," writes Russell K. Brown for the Journal of America's Military Past.

Late in 1862, amid the horrors of the U.S. Civil War, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, with President Lincoln’s approval, authorized the recruitment of Blac...

11/20/2025

Winner of the Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Published Work Award, PREDICTING THE WINNER by Ira Chinoy, tells in detail for the first time the story of election night 1952.

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11/18/2025

CRUSH by Nicholas O'Connell pierces the mysterious fog surrounding winery with colorful, concrete storytelling, in-depth portraits of famous winemakers, and a lively, down-to-earth description of the process by which wine is made: not in the critic’s mind but in the winery and vineyard.

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11/17/2025

"FUJI FIRE [by Chas Henry Fuji Fire] isn't just a story about a forgotten blaze on the slopes of Mount Fuji. It's about the cost of neglect, the danger of routine, and the Marines who paid the ultimage price while doing what they were told," writes Isaac Cubillos for
The Military Report.

There’s no hero shot on the cover. No flag waving, no Marine in dress blues staring into the sunset. Just the title — Fuji Fire — and that’s all it needs. This isn’t a war story, not exactly. It’s a story about what happens when discipline, maintenance, and common sense slip, and young M...

11/10/2025

"N***S AT THE WATERCOOLER has both intellectual and emotional resonance and stands as a meaningful contribution to the expanding body of scholarship on the enduring legacies of the Third Reich," writes Mikkel Dack for H-Net. https://bit.ly/43WdfII

11/05/2025

Scott D. Seligman, author of THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL, appeared on New Books Network to discuss America's Largest Antisemitic riot and it's aftermath.

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11/04/2025

Please join me for one of several live and virtual launch events for The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906. Some require online pre-registration:

Thursday, November 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m. EST (Virtual; Registration Required)
Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcoming-public-programs/great-christmas-boycott-1906-book-talk-scott-d-seligman

Sunday, November 9, 2025, 10:30 a.m. EST (In Person)
B’nai Israel Synagogue, Rockville, MD: https://www.bnaiisraelcong.org/event/bookdiscussionnovember2025

Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 6:00 p.m. EST (Virtual; Registration Required)
The Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York, NY: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/eldridgestreet/items/670264/calendar/2025/12/?full-items=yes

Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 6:30 p.m. EST (In Person)
Cleveland Park Library, Washington, DC: https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/14811532

Wednesday, December 10, 2026, 7:00 p.m. EST (Virtual; Registration Required)
A Tree With Roots Online Community: https://www.atreewithroots.org/events/scott-d-seligman-the-great-christmas-boycott-of-1906antisemitism-and-the-battle-over-christianity-in-public-schools

Sunday, December 21, 2025, 3:00 p.m. PST/6:00 p.m. EST (Virtual; Registration Required)
The Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA: https://jewishcommunitylibrary.org/events-listing/boycott/

Tuesday, January 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m. EST (Virtual; Registration Required)
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY and
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
(links not available yet; check websites for updates)