History
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Paperback
Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson
After Eden: A Short History of the World
Hardback
To solve the problems of the twenty-first century, historian John Charles Chasteen argues that we must first know our shared human story
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
Paperback
A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between "progress" and "tradition" in the world's largest international institution
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
Paperback
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
A Guardian Book of the Day
“Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
Hardback
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world