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In this provocative memoir, Barack Obama s history-making attorney general reveals the story of his life....more
A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryla......more
With this volume, Dr. Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek thoughtfully guide teachers through three distinct topics: the Industria......more
With this volume, Dr. Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek thoughtfully guide teachers through three distinct topics: the Industria......more
Cornelius Weygant aimed Tuesdays at Ten at his former students. The book consists of multiple lectures and lessons that ......more
Jerry de Wilde’s gorgeous photography captures a deeply intimate portrait of a lost era--Los Angeles in the 1960s. Call ......more
It is not often that journalism makes it into the grand narrative of American history. Woodward and Bernstein, through t......more
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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker’s best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the h......more
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Examines how historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) developed the black intelligentsia, allowing members o......more
The chilling account of America’s first serial killers, whose brutal string of murders on the post-Revolutionary frontie......more
Against the odds, the Hudson Valley has cleaned up its act and rediscovered its soul. In this well researched and passio......more
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James Buchanan was one of the most qualified and accomplished men elected to the presidency, and yet he turned out to be......more
A Congressional Medal of Honor Account Extraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy’s Medal of Ho......more
Can Catholic culture be American culture? Between 1850 and 1925, as millions of Catholic immigrants arrived on the shore......more
Between the 1840s and the 1880s, 300,000 to 500,000 individuals traveled the Oregon Trail, a route stretching over 2,000......more
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In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern in......more
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and historian Micki McElya, the first complete, in-depth look at a critical but overlooked ......more
The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how sp......more
In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke began buying up downtown storefronts and buildings in Nantucket, Massachus......more
Flags of the Fifty States is an indispensable historical reference and a fascinating, beautiful pictorial guide to the r......more
Ten miles out to sea, Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, is a kind of time machine. Native Americans hunted here......more
Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The "riveting" (The Economist), secret story of the h......more
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An in-depth, timely examination of one town’s nuclear power plant, the scandal that plagued it, and the reporter who was......more
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Discover the complexities of the Afghanistan War, the United States’ longest military operation and a conflict with far-......more
Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad. Delving into the......more
There are 46 mountain peaks in the Adirondack Park that tower over 4000 feet in elevation, kindly and cautiously dubbed ......more
From Robin D. G. Kelley, a fierce, distilled history of the pillage of Black America and its roots in the capitalist eco......more
From Robin D. G. Kelley, a "leading black historian of the age," Black Bodies Swinging is a fierce, distilled history of......more
In 1876, Joshua Chamberlain (hero of the Civil War, governor of Maine, and President of Bowdoin College) delivered a lon......more
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of t......more
The gripping story of how Lou Adler made Los Angeles the musical center of the world in the ’60s and ’70s, in music and ......more
The Pursuit is Plan Z is the unlikely origin story of the intelligence coup that led to the largest naval battle in hist......more
While the concepts of manhood and masculinity have assumed an established place in gender and historical studies and mas......more
After the battle at Monmouth in June 1778, most attention turns to the south as Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-......more
On June 13, 1753 the Irene set sail from London to New York. One of her passengers was Christian Wedsted, a Moravian mis......more
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More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of traged......more
First major attempt to interpret Cahokia in the context of the occupational and cultural sequence of the wider physical ......more
Part of the acclaimed Casemate Illustrated Series, this book looks in detail at the campaign of 1776, covering the battl......more
This Casemate Illustrated volume discusses the escalation of simmering tensions in the American colonies in the years af......more
A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way--and of their......more
This book provides the first ever English translation of the Yiddish play, Mississippi. Penned in 1935 by Leyb Malakh, i......more
This book provides the first ever English translation of the Yiddish play, Mississippi. Penned in 1935 by Leyb Malakh, i......more
The history of the Mexican Army’s activity in the Texas Revolution is well documented but often hidden away. Many import......more
Eighteenth- and 19th-century contemporaries believed Marshall to be, if not the equal of George Washington and Benjamin ......more
The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society--and a window into ......more
The Irish Famine forced a million Irish to flee to America, where they faced discrimination and hatred as unwanted immig......more
For readers of A Woman of No Importance and Eleanor: A Life, the first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hunga......more
New paperback edition coming Spring 2025! Noted writer and photographer Stephen Trimble mixes eloquent accounts of perso......more
The story of America’s bloodiest conflict is still as meaningful today as it was in 1865. This comprehensive, visually a......more
A clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the De......more
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Beginning where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet, this visual journey spirals through the enchantingly beaut......more
Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize - Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction......more
A socioeconomic excavation of the oft-mythologized Mississippi Delta, the poorest region of the United States, which une......more
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From the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern seaboard, during World War II women welders worked at a ......more
Looking down from outer space a vast expanse of blue appears in the heart of North America. Of the magnificent chain of ......more
In this concise biography, Eric H. Walther introduces students to the life of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk,......more
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Previously unexploited postal data provides a good proxy for economic activity in the nineteenth-century United States, ......more
From Dunkirk to Barbarossa, the war on China to Stalingrad, bestselling author James Holland and award-winning comedian ......more
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This is the first book to provide a broad yet balanced overview of the extraordinary events that led to the collapse of ......more
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We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritat......more
Driving a black Studebaker with a distinctive red interior, former journalist Marjorie Lansing Porter crisscrossed the A......more
Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, le......more
Age of Error examines the incompatibility between the obsession of Western elites with allegedly catastrophic climate ch......more
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A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game Red Dead Redemption and Red D......more
On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s ......more
An "assiduously researched" (The Wall Street Journal), "powerful...dispassionate new biography" (The Christian Science M......more
"Insightful." --The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history ......more
This illustrated study reveals the crucial roles played by German troops and commanders fighting on both sides during th......more
A comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of Canada’s warship and maritime aircraft acquisitions from 1910 to the presen......more
The First Adirondackers challenges the widespread, long-standing belief that the Adirondack uplands of northern New York......more