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An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

by William Doyle

In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s...

The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06

by Michael Clarke

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency...

The Global Partnership Against WMD: Success and Shortcomings of G8 Threat Reduction since 9/11

by Alan Heyes, Wyn Q Bowen & Hugh Chalmers

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry...

Hard Fighting: Israel in Lebanon and Gaza

by David E. E. Johnson

Like Israel in 2006, the United States today is likely ill prepared for hybrid warfare. To identify lessons that the U.S. military might learn from the Israeli experience in Lebanon, the author examines the...

The Generalship of Muhammad: Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah

by Russ Rodgers

There are many biographies of the Prophet, and they tend to fall into three categories: pious works that emphasize the virtues of the early Islamic community, general works for non-Muslim or non-specialist readers,...

A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

by Carol Berkin

We know--and love--the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But our first government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis. So when...

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America

by John Keegan

At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the...

A History of Warfare

by John Keegan

The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians...

St. Clair

by Anthony Wallace

We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

by William J. Cooper

In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which...

Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History

by John Fabian Witt

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

A New York Times Notable Book

In the fateful closing days of 1862, three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws...

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

by Lillian , Professor Faderman

This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights...

While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront

by Kristin Henderson

Many Americans will never experience the gut-wrenching act of sending a loved one off to war, or the joy and stress of welcoming him or her home. Still less known to most of us are the anxiety-ridden moments...

Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers

The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade...

Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism

by Susan Dunn

The election of 1800 was a revolution in the modern sense of a radical new beginning, but it was also a revolution in the sense of a return to the point of origin, to the principles of 1776. Federalist incumbent...

The Moral Center: How Progressives Can Unite America Around Our Shared Values

by David Callahan

Nothing’s the matter with Kansas: Americans voting their values are responding to a real moral crisis. And in this forceful follow-up to The Cheating Culture, David Callahan argues that the problems for most...

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

by David W. Blight

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away...

Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire

by Alex Abella

Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter,...

A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780

by Carl P. Borick

A detailed account of the tactics, strategy, and far-reaching consequences of a pivotal Revolutionary War campaign

The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War

by William Marvel

A critical examination of the third year of Lincoln's administration, challenging popular explanations for the origin of the conflict and uncovering a greater breadth of corruption and cynical exploitation than...