History
Writing History in the Global Era
Hardback
With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
William Wells Brown: An African American Life
Hardback
A ground-breaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African American writer of the nineteenth century.
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
Hardback
This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.
Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War
Paperback
The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary.
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Hardback
An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war.