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Sarah Osborn's World
The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-generation evangelicals In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the...
David
The Divided Heart
A reexamination of the biblical David, legendary warrior, poet, and king, by one of America’s most respected rabbis Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and...
Design, Form, and Chaos
“To have the preeminent graphic designer in America—the leading proponent of the Modern—intelligently and forcefully speak out makes this a document for today and the ages. Rand’s book is a classic.” —Stephen Heller (1993)...
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government...
First Americans
U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
A forgotten history that explores how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot...
Domina
The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire? Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the...
Impeachment
A Handbook
New Edition
Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis, Charles Black’s classic Impeachment: A Handbook has long been the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated with new...
Grounds for Dreaming
Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican...
A Natural History of Beer
A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture “Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to the pint, and...
Cnut the Great
A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and...