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History and the Enlightenment
Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his...
We Shall Overcome
A History of Civil Rights and the Law
The history of America’s successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today. Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of...
Silence Was Salvation
Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order,...
Underdog Politics
The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives
In this comprehensive analysis, political scholar Matthew N. Green disputes the widely held belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives wields little or no legislative influence. Green has examined the...
Useful Enemies
When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them
There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this biography gives us the real Eleanor—tenacious, defiant, and powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in...
Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure—and one of the first female leaders—of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic...
Alberto Giacometti
Myth, Magic, and the Man
Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this major new interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie...
2 Peter, Jude
Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up to date and comprehensive study of two of the most obscure books of the New Testament. Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the Epistles of 2 Peter and Jude...
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 1
With the Rev. William Cole, I
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, encompasses as it does politics, society, literature, the arts, and antiquarianism, constitutes a conspectus of the life and thought of the eighteenth century....