History
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
Paperback
Beyond Martin Luther King’s dream of civil and voting rights lay a revolutionary vision of economic justice.
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
Hardback
A surprising and lively history of an overlooked era that brought the modern world of art, culture, and science decisively into view.
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare
Hardback
The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time.
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
Hardback
These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library’s archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
Paperback
A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.