Subject: History
Free Speech
In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders–from the […]
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A Brief History of Equality
Thomas Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of […]
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Indigenous Continent
In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless “victims” of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled […]
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America’s Revolutionary Mind
America’s Revolutionary Mind is a major reinterpretation of the American Revolution.. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and […]
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One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
Nick Seabrook writes of Patrick Henry, who used redistricting to settle an old score with political foe and fellow Founding Father, James Madison, almost preventing […]
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America’s National Heritage Areas
There are fifty-five National Heritage Areas scattered across the US and they continue to grow in number and diversity. Though they’re not officially national parks, […]
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history. A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar […]
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The First Populist
A revelatory, timely, and masterful biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a new perspective on this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—identifying […]
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