History
Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
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The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s moonshot: An Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
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An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory
A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
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A harrowing new history of the American Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South
In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
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A sweeping, 400-year history of American slavery and American capitalism told through the emergence, evolution and persistence of the plantation
Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home
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A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities and people themselves