The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering...
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick...
Living with History/Making Social Change Stimulating Essays That Offer Rare Insight into the Life Work of One of Our Leading Historians
This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history...
NPR American Chronicles: World War I
Famously referred to by US president Woodrow Wilson as “the war to end all wars,” the first world war eclipsed all previous wars with its scale of destruction. With over...
The Twice-Born Life And Death On The Ganges
When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised...
Dinner in Camelot The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners—along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers—at a famed White House...
The Brave Ones A Memoir of Hope, Pride, and Military Service
How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger-and lives on the line-in America's...
The Fire Is upon Us James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd...
To the Island of Tides A Journey to Lindisfarne
In "To the Island of Tides," Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the...
Prompt and Utter Destruction Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision....
