I n honor of its most recent Academy Awards and much deserved recognition, we are once again featuring  Twelve Years a Slave  by Solomon ...

"Washington felt very keenly the sharp power of the hot criticism to which his course towards France had subjected him. It was a hea...

Today is International Women’s Day , a day that started nationally in the United States, but would gain enough clout and momentum to spr...

Cosimo's Book of the Month for March is a new release, a personal account from career civil servant William A. Morrill, who spent nea...

Congrats to Twelve Years a Slave for stealing the show at the 2014 Oscars !  This classic won the following awards: Best Picture Be...

After having posted last week about the biography of  Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood in response to a review in The Wall Street Journ...

This month we like to highlight a unique series of world literature, A Library of the World’s Best Literature edited by Charles Dudley Wa...

 Hans Brinker, The Silver Skates The Dutch Olympic team is on its way to achieving one of its best Winter Olympics. Sofar, the Dutch h...

This February is a busy month with the Winter Olympics, world events continuing, President's Day and of course also celebrating Blac...

In another example of the enduring value of classic books, Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood published in 1916 just (!) received a r...

Twelve Years a Slave keeps getting in the news in positive ways: last Sunday, the movie won the best film award at the Baftas, the Brit...

I n honor of Black History Month, we are featuring an unique and influential work about slavery that has recently achieved renewed recogni...

In honor of Black History Month, we are featuring an unique and influential work on the origins of humanity and especially its African root...

The quite amazing story about how an old, nearly forgotten book becomes a star-casted movie with Oscar potential continues to unfold whe...