History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
The Great Risk Shift
The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
Economics
Politics
History
The War on the West
Politics
History
Philosophy
A Ghost in the Throat
Poetry
Memoir
Ireland
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
History
Africa
France
The Economists' Hour
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Economics
History
Politics
The Politics of Rage
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Politics
History
American History
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
History
Politics
Economics
From Rebel to Ruler
One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
China
History
Politics
The Ice at the End of the World
An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Science
History
Environment
The Shadows of Power
The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
Vector
A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Science
Mathematics
Physics
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After Appomattox
History
Civil War
American History
The Age of Responsibility
Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
The Price of Democracy
The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
History
Politics
Economics
Nationalism
Five Roads to Modernity
History
Politics
Sociology
The Fall of the House of Labor
The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
History
Labor
Politics
History of Beauty
Art
History
Philosophy
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
History
War
Military Fiction
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Politics
Economics
Political Science
The Quest for Community
A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Explaining Postmodernism
Skepticism And Socialism From Rousseau To Foucault
Philosophy
Politics
History
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
The Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
History
American History
Military History
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
History
American Revolution
American History
Marcus Aurelius
A Guide for the Perplexed
Philosophy
History
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
History
Politics
Sociology
The Wright Brothers
History
Biography
Book Club
How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
Politics
History
Political Science
Made in America
A Social History of American Culture and Character
History
Sociology
Cultural
Paths Out of Dixie
The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
History
Politics
Political Science
The Wretched of the Earth
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Divided States of America
Why Federalism Doesn't Work
Politics
History
American History
The Right
The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Politics
History
American History
America’s Best Idea
The Separation of Church and State
History
Politics
Religion
The One Best Way
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Biography
History
Business
Birth of the Leviathan
History
Politics
Political Science
How to Make a Killing
Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
Medicine
Science
History
Slave Country
American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
History
American History
Labor
So Very Small
How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Science
History
Biology
Tiger Woods
Sports
Biography
Biography Memoir
A Nation Under Our Feet
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
History
American History
Race
Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)]
History
African American
Folklore
Through the Gates of Splendor
Christian
Biography
Christianity
Waves of War
Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World
Politics
Political Science
History
A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
History
Economics
Politics
The Way of the Cross
Catholic
Religion
Prayer
The Populist Explosion
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
Politics
History
Economics
Political Animals
How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Politics
Psychology
History
