History
Thomas Jefferson's Education
Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education.
Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Paperback
Reissued for the 200th anniversary: "High and heroic adventure.... An exhilarating story of bravery, self-discipline, and firm resolve, and Mr. Hawke tells it uncommonly well."—The New Yorker
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Paperback
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
Paperback
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
Hardback
From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.