History
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Paperback
The 30th-anniversary edition of a historical account, called “brilliantly original” by Katha Pollitt (The Washington Post Book World), that reframed our understanding of women’s lives in early societies
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Hardback
American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back
Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
Hardback
Winston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America and Britain’s “Special Relationship” during the Second World War and the 1950s
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Hardback
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Hardback
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America