History Books

One of Smithsonian's “Ten New Travel Books to Read When You’re Stuck at Home”"A reference guide that is deserving of a spot on the bookshelf ...

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

“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...

Winston Churchill: Hero Winston Churchill was one of the most extraordinary leaders of the twentieth century. What enabled him to stand so steadfas...

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 ...

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...

An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode—the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and b...

The Journey Continues for the World's Most Prestigious Cultural Association This book chronicles the major milestones in the artistic, physical, an...

The Ultimate Warship Her keel measured 126 feet, and she stretched to 160 feet overall. Her 46.5-foot beam sacrificed speed for the sake of stabili...

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...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author, Harvard Law School professor, and tireless defender of civil liberties unearths a little-known letter by ...

Discover the war that shaped North America in this fully illustrated companion to the PBS television documentary. It has been almost two full cent...

In 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millio...

"Get it, read it, and pass it on." —Bill Moyers "Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I wan...

When the Beatles touched down in New York on February 7, 1964 for their first visit to America, they brought with them a sound that hadn't been hea...

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...

A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy"They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tires...

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

 “Ideal for tucking into a day-pack for tours of Normandy’s history-laden beaches." —USA Today  Martin Gilbert offers fresh information on the Alli...

In 100 Miles to Freedom, U.S. Marine Bob Holland tells the story of the release of 3,700 American civilian prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Tomas...