History
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Paperback
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
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.