History
What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
Paperback
A celebrated food writer’s expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Paperback
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York,...
Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
Hardback
The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth-century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings
Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
Hardback
A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries
On the Record: Music that Changed America
Hardback
The surprising story of how iconic works of music sparked debate and action in America’s halls of Congress