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  • Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

    James H. Merrell

    Paperback

    "A stunning achievement. . . . A pathbreaking scholarly work by one of the nation's leading historians of the interaction between Native Americans and European newcomers in early America."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

  • Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

    Deborah Gray White

    Paperback

    "Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, Emerge

  • The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

    Jonathan D. Spence

    Paperback

    "Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

  • The Story of American Freedom

    Eric Foner

    Paperback

    A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.

  • Strange Defeat

    Marc Bloch

    Paperback

    A renowned historian and Resistance fighter—later executed by the Nazis—gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell in 1940.