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A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Rise of American Nationality, 1811–…

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Jeffersonian System, 1801–1811 by E…

"History of the Conquest of Peru" by William Hickling Prescott is a classic work of historical narra…

• Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditi…

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsTHE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN AMERIC…

From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a f…

Behind the writing of history is a philosophy of history, and behind that philosophy of history are …

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA GENERATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY by …

The black experience in America, starting from its origins in Western Africa up to 1961, is examined…

The black experience in America, starting from its origins in Western Africa up to 1961, is examined…

Leaving the misery and difficulties of the Overland Trail behind, Cornelia Rose expected a happy wel…

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweepi…

From the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today, take a fascinating journey th…

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War-also kn…

Chocolate, bouncy rubber balls, and the “Three Sisters” agricultural system—the people of ancient Me…

The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volu…

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development&…

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcend…

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as …

Herman Melville, born in 1819 in New York City, led a life filled with adventure, literary explorati…

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that…

How we explain the evils of the world, and the darkest parts of ourselves, has preoccupied humans th…

Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine…

The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century—its two world wars…

Fright Founder What was it that gave Edgar Allan Poe his twisted imagination? Poe started writing at…

“With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: t…

Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Amer…

Lincoln's connection to black history may go much further than his role in slavery. In the 2001 book…

The year is 1860 in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Captain James Jenkins, whose livelihood is tied …

The Olmec people are widely recognized as the first major civilization of Mexico and are thus genera…

We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the id…

As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-g…

America’s Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterprete…

For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creek…

In this riveting book, Tara Zahra takes the story of immigration that Americans know so well and wea…

Meet the youngest person to fight in the Civil War in this middle-grade historical fiction novel, pa…