History books

Connects over 300 years of history-from the transatlantic slave trade to today's prison system.  Read More >>

Ancient fables have come down to us in many forms: They were published as fable collections both in prose and verse...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging. Starting...  Read More >>

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New York Times Bestseller “This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier’s gift to us. From Roosevelt’s resilience...  Read More >>

Novel insights into Russian military thought—from the Crimean War to the war in Ukraine The development of the...  Read More >>

The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the medieval world's most popular and widely translated texts. Composed...  Read More >>

A tribute to Helena Avelar, Astrologers at Work explores the technical, cultural, and scientific dimensions of astrology...  Read More >>

A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume explores the phenomenon of spiritual intermediality in early modern Christian culture,...  Read More >>

This book argues that this treasure trove of storytelling preserved an initially clandestine counter narrative of...  Read More >>

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Tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made antislavery central to the American...  Read More >>

""This book shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in...  Read More >>

""Examines how early modern women sought to preserve youth and combat signs of aging through therapeutic cosmetics....  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

A bold new look at Watergate from a member of the Senate Watergate Committee who argues that the received wisdom...  Read More >>

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Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music’s most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty,...  Read More >>

Move aside, Bedford Falls, New York; you've been replaced by a snowy winter's day in sleepy Thompsonville, Connecticut,...  Read More >>

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and...  Read More >>

Reclaiming power and prophecy through California Indian intellectual resurgence and anticolonial resistance Mark...  Read More >>

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama--and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls...  Read More >>