"A searing exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation-and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed. In...

"An eye-opening story of the people who make the census, the United States' largest and most consequential dataset, and the growing threats to their crucial work. By many measures, the US census is...

"A biography of the famed prizefighter Yankee Sullivan, tracing his exploits across the globe, from Ireland to Australia to America, illustrating how it was men like Sullivan who created our modern...

A comprehensive narrative and collection of photographs of the Civil War.

Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has...

The definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally...

Featuring interviews with eminent historians, journalists, and writers, Speaking of America brings together nineteen wide-ranging conversations from philanthropist and financier David M. Rubenstein’s...

From the author of A Renegade History of the United States, a boldly persuasive, provocative counter-narrative that reframes our understanding of America’s role in the wider world Over the past 250...

"Bradley Rebeiro explores Frederick Douglass's overlooked constitutional theory. Like today's originalists, Douglass saw historical meaning as central to constitutional interpretation. But he also...

"For thirty-seven seconds on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg lit up the sky over Lakehurst, New Jersey in an indelible conflagration that shocked the world and brought the airship era to a close. In this...

How Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles. Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest forced migrations in American history―three...

From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American Revolution As the American...

"From "one of the best writers in the English language" (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man's life in the aftermath of the Civil War "I knew as I made my way home that...

The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. HolderThe Voting Rights Act of...

Inspired by the story of a distant cousin, investigative journalist Julia Harte explores the rich and hidden history of American citizens who fought against imperialism and dictatorship abroad, only...

For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as "the first shots of the Civil War," from the New York Times...

A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II. In 1872, a new Japanese government's first diplomatic...

Several blocks from Independence Hall, City Tavern was a hub of life in colonial Philadelphia and its dining table an important political and social meeting place. Like George Washington’s “Rising...

“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the...

"This is the gripping tale of one man's courage, and its extraordinary unintended consequences that still shape our world today. It's about a moving friendship between spies on opposite sides of the...