History Books

"In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read." —Aphrodite Jones, Ne...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Manifesto for the Radical Center.America is frozen. We have failed to face our nation’s most crucial challenges—and we...

More relevant than ever as the Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, False Alarm (Originally released in 2008) reminds readers to look ...

The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Or s...

World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever exper...

  The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment. In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, mee...

The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of c...

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conv...

Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. Th...

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patr...

At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge—the story of five crucial days in ...

“A work of beauty: breathtaking tapestries, combined with a sensitive, poignant narrative of how art prevailed over suffering in the life and work ...

The Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled their brazen plights?Despit...

The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it beforeSome of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply take it for gran...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the...

PRAISE FOR KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, m...

Booker T. Washington was among the most celebrated educators, authors, and statesmen of his day. He walked side by side with Frederick Douglass, Ma...

For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in ...

"Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism." —The...

The history of Ireland told through the words of the people who lived it Eyewitness to Irish History draws upon original source materials to captu...

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his w...

AN ENLIGHTENING, EXPANDED VIEW OF AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who took fishing ...

Unraveling a Murder Mystery That Changed History Could the killing of a single great leader while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have be...

"Anyone interested in twists of fate should find this book fascinating." –Library Journal"While away a few hours or spend a few minutes at a time e...