History
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
Hardback
A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Paperback
An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Hardback
An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
Paperback
A ground-breaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Hardback
The thrilling narrative of how New York came to be, by the author of the beloved classic The Island at the Center of the World