History
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Paperback
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America
In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp that Dimmed the City of Light
Hardback
“In her deeply affecting memoir, Sinclair brilliantly captures what her grandfather endured at Royallieu-Compiègne….[and] reminds us of how little time is left to gather every one of these sacred stories.”—Jewish Book Council, in recognition as a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Paperback
The 30th-anniversary edition of a historical account, called “brilliantly original” by Katha Pollitt (The Washington Post Book World), that reframed our understanding of women’s lives in early societies
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Hardback
American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back
Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
Hardback
Winston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America and Britain’s “Special Relationship” during the Second World War and the 1950s