"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and Indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a...

A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the...

The story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.National security may seem like a timeless notion. States have always sought...

FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE America's first crisis with the Islamic world: the diplomatic and military mission to free more than three hundred enslaved sailors On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an...

A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959), and a distillation of the essential lessons his formative years offer to the leaders of today and tomorrowGeorge Marshall’s accomplishments are well known:...

A profoundly moving biographical study of George Kennan by the fine historian John Lukacs A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and--last but not least--of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an...

Journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women’s rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was America’s first major female intellectual. Throughout much of the late-19th and 20th centuries, however, critics and scholars largely saw her as a minor figure in...

In The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, New York Timesbestselling author James Mann directs his keen analysis to Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann offers a fresh and compelling...

From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong. A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | A NEW YORK TIMES...

A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize and the 2025 Cundill History Prize“An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.“This is great history . . ...

Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance (Deviance & Criminology Series) [paperback] Erikson, Kai T. [Jun 01, 1966]

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize...