History
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
Paperback
An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Paperback
"A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Paperback
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Paperback
"A magnificent tapestry…a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity." —Washington Post Book World
At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995
Paperback
“Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s. . . .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in Stalinist Europe and informed by a deep, unmatched knowledge of Russia’s people and history.” —Matthew DallekBoston Book Review