Verso, May 2022. Hardcover. An unconventional history of homosexuality for readers of The Deviant's War by Eric Cervini We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations..... More
PublicAffairs, February 2022. Hardcover. The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela..... More
Basic Books, April 2022. Trade Paperback. From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "the Good War."..... More
Routledge, October 1995. Trade Paperback. The Romans: an introduction 2nd edition is a concise, readable, and comprehensive survey of the civilization of ancient Rome. It covers more than 1200 years of political and military history, including many of the famous, and infamous, personalities who featured in them, and describes the..... More
Oxford University Press, September 1989. Trade Paperback. In this book Lyons traces the outlines of four conflicting cultures which coexist in Ireland: Gaelic, English, Anglo-Irish and Ulster Protestant. He contends that their interlocking patterns form the basis of Ireland's continuing conflicts. The historical framework of the book is defined by..... More
The New Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A stunning work of popular history--the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut's tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom..... More
Mariner Books, March 1969. Trade Paperback. Strachey dramatizes one of the most famous and most baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, the vital, handsome Earl of Essex. More
Penguin Classics, December 2007. Trade Paperback. An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to..... More
N/A, August 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Press, March 2022. Hardcover. "Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House." --Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal "Ways and Means, an account of the..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2022. Hardcover. In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, June 2019. Paper Back. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Hardcover. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen..... More
Henry Holt and Co., May 2022. Hardcover. Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history." --George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more..... More
Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last."--Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier--shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a...... More
Henry Holt and Co., May 2022. Hardcover. Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history." --George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more..... More
Thomas Nelson, March 2001. Trade Paperback. In "THE LINCOLN NO ONE KNOWS," Webb Garrison focused his life-long study of Abraham Lincoln upon the mysteries that continue to bewilder those who try to understand the man. If Lincoln was against slavery, why did he countermand early efforts to free slaves? How..... More
University Press of Kansas, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Had Lee enjoyed the manpower or materiel advantages of Grant, would the South have triumphed? Had Hood possessed strength superior to Sherman's, would he still have lost their encounters in Georgia? Popular sentiment has long bowed to the military leadership of the..... More
Ballantine Books, March 1985. Trade Paperback. In January of 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson was unshakable in his neutrality and in his efforts to mediate peace..... More
United States Govt Printing Office, June 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Macmillan Pub Co, March 1982. Hardcover. More
