History

Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty

by Cassandra Pybus

Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and...

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

by Richard Zacks

When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how...

March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown

by Elmer Luke & David Karashima

In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild....

Escape from Alcatraz

by J. Campbell Bruce

In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil’s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail...

Native American History

by Judith Nies

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY:

A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.

Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore...

Clash of Wings

by Walter J. Boyne

Boyne resurrects the war of the skies in all its heroic and tragic drama, while supplying insightful, expert conclusions about previously overlooked aspects of the war, including the essential role of American...

Reinventing Politics

by Vladimir Tismaneanu

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914

by Jr., William C. Fuller

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

by Timothy Garton Ash

“We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it.” In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism about Euro-American relations,...

A Confederate Soldier At War 1862 - 1865

by Wayland Fuller Dunaway & Bob Carruthers

Wayland Fuller Dunaway was born in Lancaster County, Virginia on December 26th 1841. 20 years later he joined the Confederate army with the rank of lieutenant in Company F, Virginia Infantry and fought in many...

A Union Soldier At War 1861 - 1863

by Leander Stillwell & Bob Carruthers

Composed more than 50 years after the war, Leander Stillwell's classic "The Story Of A Common Soldier' remains as fascinating and insightful as ever. Based on the letters he sent home and the diary that he kept,...

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

by Thomas Cahill

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks...

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

by Paul Strathern

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different,...

History of the Present

by Timothy Garton Ash

The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new...

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Powe

by Danielle L. Mcguire

Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955...

There is Power in a Union

by Philip Dray

From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.

From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first...

Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice

by Guy Walters

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting...

Utopia/Dystopia

by Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley & Gyan Prakash

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet...

Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America

by Barry Werth

In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought...

Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France

by Laurent Dubois

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup finals,...