In our hunt for the most eclectic stories and ideas of the day, we come across a lot of great writing, and our holiday season gift to you is this list of some of the gems we found over this year. Are you looking for a biography or memoir that will surprise and delight you—maybe about a person you thought you’d figured out long ago? How about a story by a scientist that will help you pepper your holiday party conversation with extremely weird facts? Or a book of history that will turn your worldview upside down? If so, you’re in luck: Zócalo Public Square’s top 10 nonfiction books (plus one) of 2018 are all this and more.
    Ethan Kytle and Blain Roberts’s Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy goes beyond the broad strokes of what we know about racism and the South’s post-Civil War history: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the … Continue reading Eleven Books That Got Us Through 2018