📚 The past, present, and everything we argue about on the internet.
From revolutions to revelations, these books decode society’s tangled mess with insight, wit, and maybe a conspiracy theory or two.
Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial revolution? Did they drink beer?In a series of fast-paced essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines answers 40 questions that ancient historian...
This national bestselling history of late 19th century American war fever is "compulsively readable . . . hard to forget and hard to put down."*On February fifteen, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. Some in the United States...
A visual journey through the history of North America via a series of engaging, detailed maps, explaining key events and eras from prehistory to the 21st century.Specially created maps tell the story of this vast region: the first human populations and the lands of...
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate...
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by...
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the...
"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his." In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION...
The story of one of Alaska's last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist.Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had...
The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who became a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer.Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of AmericaA New York Times Book Review...