History
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
Hardback
In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Paperback
The ground-breaking, “provocative” ( The New York Times Book Review) work that exposed the racially discriminatory precursors of affirmative action, now updated with a new introduction
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
Hardback
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
Paperback
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
Paperback
From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s post-war order and divide us still