History

Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle

by Andrea Hiott

Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand,...

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

by Jim Yardley

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding...

Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

by Simon Andrew Avenell

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar...

Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved

by Albert Jack

FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?

WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!

What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really...

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

by Grace Elizabeth Hale

Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.  In intricately textured...

What's Right About America: Celebrating Our Nation's Values

by Granger Kay

What's Right About America provides a fresh, lively take on the evolution of American values, and why they matter today more than ever.Rep. Granger is ideally suited to write a book that speaks to American ideals,...

General Jo Shelby's March

by Anthony Arthur

Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous...

The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power

by Carl Freedman

The fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound...

Admonitions on Governing the People: Manual for All Administrators

by Yagyong Chong & Byonghyon Choi

This is the first English translation of one of Korea's most celebrated historical works, a pre-modern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. Written in...

The Four Deuces: A Korean War Story

by C.S. Crawford

These memoirs are not an attempt to answer, solve, or resolve the problems arising from or about the three-year-long Korean War or the much longer stalemate that followed. This story was written to let you know...

Lidia's Italy

by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali

In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey—from Piemonte to Puglia—exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous...

America's Mission

by Tony Smith

America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American...

Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

by Michael Kammen

In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s...

War of Words

by Harry J Maihafer

A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln recognized the power of the press. He knew that, at most, a few thousand people might hear one of his speeches in person, but countless readers across the nation would absorb...

Desperate Deception

by Thomas E Mahl

A fascinating study of the efforts of British intelligence to push America out of its isolationist stance and into the Allied camp during the early days of WW II. Freelance writer Mahl has convincingly drawn...

Drake

by Wade G Dudley

Chronicles the dramatic life of one of England's earliest naval heroes and the origins of British naval supremacy

Etched in Purple

by Frank J Irgang

A rediscovered classic memoir of World War II

Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler

by Anne Nelson

In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red...

The Lotus Unleashed

by Robert Topmiller

During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices-including self-immolation-to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker...

Pogue's War

by Forrest Pogue

" With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps...