Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur Meier Schlesinger
"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.More
Eric Foner
"Eric Foner's brilliant, important book . . . shows how, having invoked liberty to justify their independence in 1776, Americans have fought ever since over what that freedom means and who may enjoy its blessings."—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore
Michael Les Benedict
"The definitive account of Andrew Johnson's impeachment and of the dramatic events that first put a president on trial before the Senate." - Eric FonerMore
Lawrence E. Walsh
In its chilling and unsparing revelations, Firewall is the definitive account of the most dangerous breach of presidential authority since Watergate.More
Walter LaFeber
Winner of the Bancroft Prize.More
Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds
The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations.More
Stephen Macedo
Our political and personal lives continue to be lived in the broad wake of the 1960s.More
Jean B. Lee
"A detailed portrait of colonial and revolutionary times that gradually becomes a convincing miniature." —Washington Post
"An insightful study of the transforming power of revolution and war.... Meticulously organized and lucidly written,... it is from first to last a model of narrative history." —Journal of Military History
MoreCharles B. Dew
A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.More
Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
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John S. D. Eisenhower
Powerful and compelling. . . . Eisenhower is not only an accomplished military historian, he's also a storyteller in the tradition of Bruce Caton and Shelby Foote."—Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-TimesMore
Randall Brink
"In this book, I deal only with the truth about Amelia Earhart's last flight, a truth withheld by our government because of a tenuous peace with Japan in the Pacific and concerns for the national security at home. . . . Those who knew the truth, and held it close, knew that Earhart and Noonan had survived. They believed it was their duty to hide the truth, and so they did."—from the IntroductionMore
Robert William Fogel
"[Fogel's] exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed [him] both to increase our knowledge of an institutions operation and disintegration and to renew our methods of research." —from the citation to Robert William Fogel for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesMore
Robert L. Heilbroner
"It is my hope that some grasp of what the twenty-first century holds
in store for capitalism may enable us to avoid at least some of the
pain we might otherwise have to endure," writes the eminent economist
Robert Heilbroner in this important book on the world's economic future.More
Francis Jennings
"We have lived upon this land from days beyond history's records."
These are the words of a Pueblo man, words that describe the experience
of Native Americans. They underlie the long work and philosophy of
Francis Jennings—the scholar who has done the most to change our view
of the relationship of Native Americans and the European settlers.More