History
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
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Hardback
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he...
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.
The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
Hardback
Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.