Arcadia Publishing (SC), August 2004. Paper Back. In 1825, two government surveyors platting the southwest Michigan territory engaged in a small skirmish with two Native Americans. With a humorous nod, the surveyors gave the name Battle Creek to the river where this encounter took place. A few years later, a...... More
Anchor Books, February 2020. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - From the author of London Falling--a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. One of The..... More
Princeton University Press, December 2005. Hardcover. "I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?" Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: "I do not know that it is." Required by custom to be "entirely passive" during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at..... More
Yale University Press, July 2004. Paper Back. From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth "[A] fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood."--Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs "Erudite and engrossing."--Charles King, Times Literary Supplement..... More
University of Wisconsin Press, April 2012. Paper Back. When Sacvan Bercovitch's The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans' writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition..... More
Library of America, August 1984. Hardcover. The most comprehensive collection of the Founding Father's famous writings, including drafts of the Declaration of Independence At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and..... More
Library of America, January 2011. Paper Back. Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation's birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson's writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and..... More
Allen Lane, September 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first 'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its..... More
University of Virginia Press, August 2011. Hardcover. The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson's allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality. Maurizio Valsania shows that Jefferson's multifaceted character and personality are to a large extent the logical outcome of an anti-metaphysical, enlightened, and humility-oriented approach to reality. That..... More
Beacon Press, January 2010. Trade Paperback. The final book by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which we find we an acute analysis of American race relations and the state of the movement after a decade of civil rights efforts. "In this book--his last grand expression of his vision--he put..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1995. Paper Back. In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate. More
Scribner, May 2011. Trade Paperback. *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians..... More
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, February 1958. Paper Back. The Declaration of Independence Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they..... More
Scribner Book Company, June 2021. Hardcover. From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed..... More
Ten Speed Press, November 2026. Hardcover. America Obscura, the follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura, is a road trip into the hidden heart of America--a love letter to the strange, fantastic, and beautiful corners of the United States. America Obscura takes readers on a journey that..... More
University of Virginia Press, January 1999. Paper Back. Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson shows how the..... More
Picador USA, October 2026. Paper Back. Originally published to great acclaim in 2009, Blood and Politics is an unprecedented, sweeping history of white nationalism's rise in America from a MacArthur Award-winning expert in the field. Over decades of archival and in-person research, Leonard Zeskind explored the startling underworld of white..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 2019. Hardcover. In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older..... More
University Press of Florida, October 2013. Paper Back. For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices..... More
NYU Press, April 2014. Hardcover. Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 2026. Hardcover. From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer comes a remarkable new look at the only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. The conventional wisdom is that William Howard Taft was a mediocre president, a man almost..... More
University Press of Kansas, June 2003. Paper Back. Despite significant strides over the past quarter century, Native peoples of North America face an uncertain future due to their unstable political, legal, and economic positions. Views of their predicament, however, continue to be dominated by non-Indian writers. In response, a dozen..... More
Univ California State Pr at, September 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Books, October 2004. Hardcover. Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man whoawith valor, spirit, respect, and..... More
Penguin Books, March 1996. Paper Back. This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the first appearance of humans to the complex polity of the twentieth century. Colin McEvedy tracks the development of modern man, the differentiation and spread..... More
