This important book shows us that without the “long year” of 1774, there may not have been an American Revolution at all.
A captain and his team of eight officers from the Women’s Royal Naval Service devised a game that arguably changed the course of World War II.
“What happened to us?” This question haunts the Middle East and the Arab world. It’s also the question posed by Kim Ghattas in her illuminating new book.
Like most civil rights, vehicular freedom was a cultural battle that took several extra decades to be actualized for African Americans.
How do black athletes represent a country that hates them, during the 1936 Berlin Olympics? Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tackles this complicated question.
Alexis Coe moves past the well-worn tropes we’ve come to associate with George Washington and paints a cheeky portrait of a man we may think we already know.
When Time Stopped is filled with heartbreaking, spine-tingling stories about Ariana Neumann’s father and his dramatic past as a Jewish refugee in WWII Berlin.
Concealed within Helen Fremont’s polished family image was a Jewish refugee, a traumatized survivor and children wrestling with mental illness.
Rory MacLean’s immensely readable, humorous account joins two parallel journeys across Eastern Europe—one in 1989 and one in 2019.
Don’t Believe a Word debunks common myths about language by way of scholarship, societal trends and the author’s own passionate views on all of the above.
Providing a deeply personal look at a dark chapter in history, Hurston’s book is revelatory.
The first substantial biography of Douglass in almost 25 years, Blight’s important book rightfully won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Gillian Gill gives us a beguiling look at the many women who helped shape the temperament, talents and art of Virginia Woolf.
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