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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

by Jared Diamond

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none...


1775: A Good Year for Revolution

by Kevin Phillips

The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution

In 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed...


The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground

by Jeffrey Ostler

The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain it The Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including...


Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003

by Jr., William N. Eskridge

A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior

From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As William Eskridge...


Emissary of the Doomed

by Ronald Florence

The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population

When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until...


Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

by Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.

Boston in 1775 is...


The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

by Dan Jones

“Outstanding . . . A thrilling history of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery and brutal warfare.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans...


Venice: A New History

by Thomas F. Madden

An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur

Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried...


Darwin: Portrait of a Genius

by Paul Johnson

Eminent historian Paul Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of...


The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

by Marcus Rediker

On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain,...


American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000

by Joshua Freeman

A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance

In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized...


Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

by Tanner Colby

An incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King’s Promised Land

Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the land, but...


Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian

by Bernard Lewis & Buntzie Ellis Churchill

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary life

After September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis...


Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

by Norman Davies

An evocative account of fourteen European kingdoms-their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance.

There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Europe's past is littered with states and...


Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

by John Barry

A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.

For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that...


A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America

by Tom Zoellner

A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings

On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative...


American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth.

North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic...


A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families and Friends

by Dennis Smith

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a portrait of tragedy, survival, and healing from the author of The New York Times bestseller Report from Ground Zero.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks...