History
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type
Paperback
"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek
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