History

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.

Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
Hardback
The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Paperback
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.


