📚 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.
The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's celebrated film starring Frances McDormand, winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best ActressMarch and April pick for the PBS Newshour-New York Times "Now Read This" Book ClubNew York Times...
A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a...
An updated third edition of the modern classic that applies cognitive science to the world of politics—to explain how our unconscious views shape our votes. When Moral Politics was first published, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the...
In "a gritty, first-person account" from an American officer in the Pacific theater battle, "one can hear Shaw's voice as if he were sitting beside you" (Wall Street Journal). On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the...
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed...
A look at African Americans' contributions to the United States by the iconic leader whose life spanned from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. Â The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and a cofounder of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois...
A chronicle of the Adams, Quincy and Hancock families and how they helped spark the American Revolution.Everyone recognizes John Hancock's signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence but Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores for the first time the...
A GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II FROM THE FAMOUS FACES WHO WITNESSED IT.‘Riveting.’ Daily Mail‘Fascinating.’ The Times‘Beguiling . . . a good story well told.’ BBC History MagazineOn 28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini was dragged from his mistress’s...
David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the...
"An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground." —Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of...