The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with...

• INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! • #1 ABA Indie Bookstores (PB Nonfiction) • #6 New York Times (combined HC and PB Nonfiction) • #9 Publishers Weekly (overall PB) • #16 USA Today overall (all genres,...

"Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong's brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A riveting account of the extraordinary life of John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president.” —Ken Burns, award-winning filmmaker “Brilliantly rendered...every page crackles...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nation's beginnings and championing...

The most beloved Southern cookbook of all time: a glorious celebration of seasonal eating that has shaped generations of home cooks, from “the first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR). Beautifully...

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to...

Ai Weiwei: Bridging Cultures Through Art and Activism--A Life Transformed by Displacement, Advocacy, and a Vision for Humanitarian CommunicationArtist and activist Ai Weiwei is famous around the...

In his sixth decade of literary passion and compassion, Richardson finds the years shorter but the hours just as long. We have only Now—but always Now. Winner of the prestigious Jackson Poetry Prize,...

A revised edition of this celebrated cultural history features a new afterword and three new chapters focusing on the global K-pop phenomenon BTS, as well as the Academy Award–winning film Parasite...

Democracy and despotism are closer than you think--in this briskly astute book, a leading political thinker reveals why that should alarm us all.

"The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era...

American Infidelity is a timely, provocative exploration of a forgotten chapter in American history--one that still echoes in our most urgent cultural debates. In the final decades of the 19th...

In American Pogroms, terrorism expert Daniel Byman traces two centuries of mob violence against religious, ethnic, and racial communities in the United States. Providing detailed case studies, Byman...

A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War. In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted...

A true pivotal moment in American history, the Louisiana Purchase redefined the boundaries of the United States and recharted the course of its history. The story behind it transcends borders The...

The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "America" and how it came to birth the United States. The Oxford History of...

A gripping and granular look at how Abraham Lincoln got elected the 16th president of the United States.James McPherson calls the election of 1860 "undeniably the most important--and pivotal--in all...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Since its beginnings during the Protestant Reformation, Calvinism has spread throughout Europe and America and eventually to Africa and Asia...

"This book reimagines the history of France's first overseas empire, tracing its roots from medieval crusading ventures to the revolutionary upheavals of the late eighteenth century. Rejecting...