Historian Edmund Morgan's latest work American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America includes essays on everything from Columbus's landing to the Salem witch trials to a piece pondering the relative merits of two early presidents of Yale University.
After poring over reams of Lord Byron's letters and journals, author Edna O'Brien presents a vivid portrait of the controversial poet in the new biography "Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life"
