Subject: History

Atlas of the 2020 Elections
From presidential to congressional, state, and local tickets, this book explains the 2020 elections through more than 100 full-color maps unleashing the illustrative power of […]
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His Name Is George Floyd
The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands […]
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The Black History Book
Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With […]
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Who’s Black and Why?
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin–an indispensable chronicle of the […]
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The American Experiment
American icons and historians explore the grand American experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas, the capstone book in a trilogy from David Rubenstein.
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Systemic Racism 101
Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 […]
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The Black Man’s President
Frederick Douglass called the martyred president “emphatically the black man’s president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and […]
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The Dawn of Everything
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of “the […]
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The 1619 Project
A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past […]
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Career and Family
In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between […]
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