History
The Family Roe: An American Story
Hardback
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great...
Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Hardback
In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on...
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Hardback
The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass’s heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction’s demise.
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Hardback
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.
The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Paperback
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.