History
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Paperback
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the American Civil War
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
Hardback
An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law
Paperback
The Color of Law recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Paperback
An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Hardback
An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions