New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination...

"Horror, true crime, and creepy legends abound in this epic travel guide to the films, books, and dark history found throughout the U.S. With a unique eye focused on the female, best friends and lifelong horror fans, Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, will tour well-known sites like the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, while also going off-trail to explore forgotten gems, like the hometown of the OG goth girl, Emily Dickinson, capturing the truly strange...

The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration...

For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether...

"England's dark places revealed. We are inexplicably drawn to sites of pain and shame and to the tourist experience of suffering, dying or encountering the morbid. 'Dark tourism' is travelling to places of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre, where we get a sense of our own mortality through the stories of people who came before us. This first-ever guide to dark tourism in England offers a thought-provoking compendium of a nation's rich and often...