History
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
Paperback
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2019
“It’s a small miracle that a writer as good as James Verini witnessed the battle of Mosul.… It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades.” —George Packer
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
Hardback
An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Paperback
Three sisters from the American South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality and privilege.
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Paperback
“...Kristen Richardson’s sharp account of how the season evolved... is a more absorbing story than any period drama.”—Financial Times
Thomas Jefferson's Education
Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education.