5004 results for '"Douglas J. Brewer'

Barbara J. Mitnick has edited a remarkably comprehensive anthology, bringing new life to the rich and turbulent late eighteenth-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived as a legacy of the...

The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump...

A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth. Drawing on the latest research, this timely and original book lays out the current scientific understanding of mass...

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides fresh...

Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award“Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers “A stunning...

The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell himself it’s for the greater good—until the day...

This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first...

In March 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shocked the western frontier when he proposed a domestic excise tax on whiskey to balance America’s national debt. The law, known colloquially as...

One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most...

Putting the life and work of 17th-century Dutch jurist Gerard Noodt in a social context, this book uses correspondence from Noodt's contemporaries to provide a lively look at this important figure in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies...

Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.“What matters more: mind or body? Filled with...

Recounts the major events and effects of the battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Sedan, Port Arthur, Verdun, Stalingrad, Dien Bien Phu, and others, and discusses weapons and tactics

Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail“A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal“Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating...

Fully illustrated, with over four hundred specially commissioned photographs, including twelve color plates, this book joins its companion volume, Greek Sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton...

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of...

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in...

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination "A masterful biography. . . . Ward's struggles to find...