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

The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival …

2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female NarratorNew York Times bestseller! An unforgettable novel …

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control i…

Outsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting with the ancient Greeks and their myths …

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopoliti…

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare…

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied…

Here are the saints and sinners, popes and kings that God used to shape his Church and change the wo…

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

The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consi…

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, …

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of t…

With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the wor…

From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploratio…

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an in…

Our world today-from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media …

“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on …

In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provides a concise history o…

A fascinating journey through the history of one of the transatlantic world’s most popular hymnsSung…

On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed sol…

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and lega…

A new history of the world's most embattled idea.Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accept…

How does the physics we know today—a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked t…

Brought to you by Penguin. The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our str…

The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its r…

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late t…

The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its econ…

At the start of World War I in 1914, many global citizens believed it would be a short conflict that…

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that s…

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be …

This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While som…

After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The vict…

The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from …

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the…

In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape…