History

Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—and the American Revolution—Transformed Britain
Hardback
When Danielle Allen discovered a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had...

Unsinkable: The History of the Boston Whaler
Hardback
A definitive history of the popular Boston Whaler motorboat, back in print and updated to include the Whaler’s most transformative decade

Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
Hardback
The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s moonshot: An Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world

Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
Hardback
A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.

The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Hardback
An astonishing true story–one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century–told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (The Washington Post)


