History books

""[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative."" - Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale University...  Read More >>

""[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative."" -Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale University...  Read More >>

In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration...  Read More >>

In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration...  Read More >>

""The great concerns of the southern states have made their products so well known that few people realized that...  Read More >>

Ferocity and Revelry on the Frontier When Colorado Springs was founded next to the former territorial capital...  Read More >>

How Powerful Storms Shaped Martha's Vineyard and Its Resilient Spirit Martha's Vineyard is no stranger to storms....  Read More >>

In 1950, Ian Robertson Hamilton, a law student, took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster...  Read More >>

Discover the rambunctious early history of Roanoke, a Wild West town in Virginia's Blue Ridge. During the 1880s...  Read More >>

This book sets out the huge legacy of proud maritime tradition from the port of Edinburgh known as Leith. Steam...  Read More >>

Assyria's Plunder offers a new history of ancient Assyria and its interactions with its client states of Israel...  Read More >>

This compelling account reveals how a battle over the sea shaped a community, an industry, and a legacy. In the...  Read More >>

Through historic postcards discover how Hilton Head Island went from a relatively dormant community to a renowned...  Read More >>

 A guide to cast-metal signs, an under-researched aspect of Britain’s industrial history  Read More >>

A fascinating guide to early train disasters, illustrated through contemporary postcards and explained expertly...  Read More >>

National award-winning essayist and historian Julia Hans has assembled nearly 200 vintage postcards unique to Southern...  Read More >>

Through a historical overview of this multifaceted concept, alongside gender construction in colonial Latin America,...  Read More >>

Through a historical overview of this multifaceted concept, alongside gender construction in colonial Latin America,...  Read More >>

A defiantly feminist retelling of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind.  Read More >>

A defiantly feminist retelling of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind.  Read More >>

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history--from mankind's earliest fires to the latest smart...  Read More >>

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history--from mankind's earliest fires to the latest smart...  Read More >>

In 1838, full emancipation swept across the British Empire. To mark the occasion, William Knibb stood before a vast congregation in Jamaica and declared: THE MONSTER IS DEAD....  Read More >>

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a German-Jewish doctor, during WWII in the Netherlands.  Read More >>

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a German-Jewish doctor in the Netherlands during WWII.  Read More >>