Subject: History
Myth America
America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. The United States is in the grip of a […]
Read More
Off with Her Head
Eleanor Herman returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris. Imagine Donald […]
Read More
Roll Red Roll
A thoughtfully reported narrative about a rape case at the center of a deeply polarized steel town in the American Midwest, exploring what creates a […]
Read More
Opium’s Orphans
Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression […]
Read More
A World Transformed
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be […]
Read More
In Defense of Witches
Witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both […]
Read More
Proving Ground
Proving Ground is the untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world’s first modern computer. After the end of […]
Read More
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as […]
Read More
The Last Campaign
H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and […]
Read More