"Deeply researched and highly readable." --Eric Foner, Times Literary Supplement "A rich history of regional distinctions, especially as they shaped the antebellum Republic." --Kirkus Reviews "A fitting testament to a career marked by boundary-crossing...

America’s Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable as, and in some respects stronger than, the men they loved, married, and mothered.Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York’s Hudson Valley...

The culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series, Gotham at War delivers an unforgettable portrait of America's greatest city during history's most catastrophic conflict. Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from...

Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions is an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths."The book that best explains Trump’s...

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Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States. Churchill and America...

A series of letters by some of America's Founding Fathers, whose defenses of the Constitution are still relevant todayOriginally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting...

The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in...

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, constitutional law and political...

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in...

The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, "liberated,"...

A concise and highly readable biography...[Hancock's] legacy is very much worth our remembering. --Wall Street Journal "King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its impressive scholarship lightly. It deftly explains the wider...

The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America's history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000 were wounded. As a turning point in the Civil War,...

Eric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner's keynote has been American freedom and the recurring battles over its meanings...

“A shocking and moving read. A brutally honest account of the impact of family separation at the US border.”—Kirkus Reviews The first-ever memoir of a child’s experience in detention on the US/Mexico border under President Trump’s infamous family...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the...

Coal's central role in America's history and its ongoing threats in the climate crisis.   For decades coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals, and lighting...

A provocative, critical take on the traditional narrative of US history—and a call to reimagine America's past According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the United States is one of steady progress toward a "more...

How the antitax fringe went mainstream—and now threatens America’s futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared...