Six of the best recent hidden histories

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Alexandra Silverman tagged six top recent hidden histories, including:Shady Characters: The Secret Live of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks, by Keith Houston

Fresh, arcane, fascinating, divisive, and continuously evolving—Houston’s characters, including the asterisk (*), at sign (@) and pilcrow (¶), are revealed to have truly vibrant hidden