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Henry VI
In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual...
Letters from Mexico
Hernán Cortés’s Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until...
From Jesus to Christ
The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ
Second Edition
How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition?"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In...
Fighting for American Manhood
How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship...
Lichens of North America
Lichens are a unique form of plant life, the product of a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus. The beauty and importance of lichens have long been overlooked, despite their abundance and diversity in most...
My German Question
Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—“the story,” says Peter Gay, “of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.” With his...
What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters
This book is the most comprehensive analysis ever written about the American public’s factual knowledge of politics. Drawing on extensive survey data, including much that is original, two experts in public opinion and political...
Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions
This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning’s Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man child in the rural South...
The Treatise on Perspective
Published and Unpublished
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, Europe witnessed significant new developments in the science and art of perspective. This comprehensive and insightful book identifies and discusses the multiple...
The Democratization of American Christianity
A provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic"The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this...