History

A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
Hardback
A harrowing new history of the American Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
Hardback
An illuminating story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child”

The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State
Paperback
After fifty years, this shocking report released in a single, readable volume for the first time is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens

Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
Paperback
An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation

In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
Hardback
A sweeping, 400-year history of American slavery and American capitalism told through the emergence, evolution and persistence of the plantation


