Katie Whitaker
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy—a history worthy of Shakespeare.More
Elizabeth D. Leonard
The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.More
Peter Gay
“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
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Fawn McKay Brodie, Annette Gordon-Reed
A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and a fascinating exploration of his relationship with Sally Hemings.More
Darren Dochuk
A sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics.More
Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Gay
Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.More
Eric Jay Dolin
From the best-selling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries.More
Laura Kalman
An authoritative history of the right turn in American national politics during the Ford-Carter years.More
Christopher Kelly
“A thoughtful and sophisticated account of a notoriously complicated and controversial period.”—R. I. Moore, Times Literary SupplementMore
Robert McCrum
How English conquered the world: a Guns, Germs, and Steel argument based on the power of the word.More
Edmund S. Morgan
“A wise, humane and beautifully written book.”—Bret Stephens, Wall Street JournalMore
Graham Robb
The secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.More
Saree Makdisi
“A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice.”—Desmond M. TutuMore
Alice Albinia
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory StewartMore
Daniel Maier-Katkin
Two titans of twentieth-century thought: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.More