History
The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
Volume: 2
Paperback
The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern world—the Age of Reason.
Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
Paperback
A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.
The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
Volume: 1
Paperback
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.
Silent Depression: Twenty-Five Years of Wage Squeeze and Middle Class Decline
Paperback
Longtime observer of the American economy Wallace C. Peterson here offers a wake-up call.
Telling the Truth about History
Paperback
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist