History

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

by Arthur Herman

SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General...

Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee

by Jeff Himmelman

“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give...

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

by Thomas J. Sugrue

The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the...

Oh, Oh, Canada!

by William Gairdner

For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books The Trouble with Canada, The War Against the Family, and The Trouble...

Olga's Story: Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

by Stephanie Williams

When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of...

In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet

by Paul Kriwaczek

Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil,...

Askiwina: A Cree World

by Doug Cuthand

In his trademark direct prose style, Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan s Aboriginal people.

One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

by Chris Ballard

"One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart."

--Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys...

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

by Ralph Waldo Emerson & Brenda Wineapple

Introduction by Brenda Wineapple

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic....

York's Sacrifice: Militia Casualties of the War of 1812

by Janice Nickerson

York's Sacrifice profiles 39 men who lost their lives during the War of 1812. The militia's contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don't know how many Upper Canadian...

The Best and the Brightest

by David Halberstam

David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.

Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

by Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley & Robert Reid-Pharr

Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley

Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped...

Seizing Destiny

by Richard Kluger

Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so...

A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

by Thomas Sowell

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern

The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past

by Peter C. Rollins

American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians....

The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times

by Reeva Spector Simon & Michael Menachem Laskier

-- Norman A. Stillman, Middle East Quarterly

The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers

by Charles M. Iii Robinson

Here is the first full telling of the most colorful and famous law enforcers of our time. For years, the Texas Rangers have been historical figures shrouded in myth. Charles M. Robinson III has sifted through...

Napoleon in Egypt

by Paul Strathern

“Europe is a molehill….”

Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer.

We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.” —Napoleon

Napoleon’s...

The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France

by Eric Jager

As the huge crowd seethed with pent-up excitement, the two deadly enemies studied each other intently, their breath hot behind their visors. Each sought the other’s death as fire and water seek each other’s...

The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation

by James Donovan

On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks...