History

Explore the foundations of democracy with Aristotle's The Athenian Constitution, a captivating journey through the political landscape of ancient Athens from the 7th to the 4th century BC. Whether p...

America's history: a sugarcoated legend written by white men. Now, acclaimed columnist Michael Harriot delivers a searingly smart and hilariously Black AF corrective. Unapologetically provocative and ...

They were ordinary men bound together by extraordinary circumstances. In Band of Brothers, historian Stephen E. Ambrose tells the unforgettable story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regime...

In this sweeping and deeply human epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson unveils one of the most significant, yet overlooked, movements in American history: the Great Migration. From 191...

A searing exposé of Soviet repression, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 stands as a towering literary monument to the millions who suffered within its vast network of pris...

As the American Revolution hangs in the balance, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson delivers a breathtaking narrative of the war's pivotal middle years. The Fate of the Day plunges into ...

In 431 BC, the clash between Athens and Sparta ignited a war that consumed the Greek world for decades. Thucydides, an Athenian general and historian, chronicled this brutal conflict with unparalleled...

In 1899, the mayor of Jerusalem, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, foresaw the coming storm when he wrote to Theodore Herzl, warning of the displacement that would befall Palestine's indigenous people. His words...

Before Trump, before Fox News, before the Tea Party, there was a vibrant, distinctly American strain of authoritarianism brewing in the lead-up to World War II. In Prequel, Rachel Maddow unearths th...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Empire of the Summer Moon chronicles the epic forty-year battle for the American West between white settlers and the Comanche Indians, the most formidable tribe in America...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and the crowning achievement of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, The Guns at Last Light delivers a gripping narrative of the Allied triumph in Europe during Wor...

A chilling and definitive account of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich meticulously chronicles Adolf Hitler's ascent to power, his relentless conquest of Europe,...

In this ambitious single-volume history, award-winning historian Jill Lepore delivers a magisterial account of America's origins and its ever-evolving, often contradictory story. These Truths embark...

In the shadow of the Roaring Twenties, a uniquely American evil took root. While flappers danced to jazz, the Ku Klux Klan rose to terrifying power not in the Old Confederacy, but in the Heartland and...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Truman" and "John Adams" comes a breathtakingly vivid account of America's pivotal year. 1776 unveils the gripping story of how disparate colonies forged the...