History

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
Paperback
A former The New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Hardback
A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent ideas about women came from

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


