History

Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home
Hardback
A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities and people themselves

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

Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
Paperback
An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation


