Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a...

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture?In this timely and incisive book,...

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the...

“Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.”—James Pope, Washington Post“Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as...

A Federalist Notable Book“An important contribution to our understanding of the 14th Amendment.”—Wall Street Journal“By any standard an important contribution...A must-read.”—National Review“The most detailed legal history to date of the constitutional...

“This is the book to throw at your human resources director—not literally, of course—when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made...It is a closely argued, thoroughly researched treatise on how we got here and...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it,...

“[A] learned and thoughtful portrayal of the history of race relations in America...authoritative and highly readable...[An] impressive work.”—Randall Kennedy, The Nation“This comprehensive history...reminds us that the fight for justice requires our...

A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for...

As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two...

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep.The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected...

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions...

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book...

ATK does the math—so you don’t have to!—in this New York Times bestselling cookbook for two featuring 700+ perfectly scaled recipes for newlyweds, college grads, and empty nesters.This special 10th anniversary edition features over 200 new recipes, more...

"Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read."–Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, ParapraxisHow to maintain hope in the face of despairIn the...

"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it."–China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutionsThis book reinterprets the history of...

"Unsettles, expands and deepens our understanding of the black meme...necessary reading; brilliant and utterly convincing."–Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes"You will be galvanized by Legacy Russell’s analytic brilliance and visceral eloquence...

"Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture." –Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Light of the World Twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a transatlantic Black feminist classic Bringing...

"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay’s position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today."–Jonathan Crary, author of Scorched EarthA groundbreaking work on the power of photography as a vehicle for civil protestUnderstanding...