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
Fascism or Genocide
How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics
Politics
History
The First New Nation
Sociology
History
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
History
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
History
Books About Books
Biography
RIP GOP
How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans
Politics
History
Managed Annihilation
An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
History
The Slaveholding Republic
An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
History
Crazy Horse and Custer
History
Biography
American History
The Indicted South
Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
History
Politics
The Decline of Popular Politics
The American North, 1865-1928
History
Politics
The Driving Machine
A Design History of the Car
History
State Capture
How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation
Politics
Political Science
The United States Of America
The Origins of Creativity
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
From the New Deal to the New Right
Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
History
Politics
American History
Empire's Crossroads
A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
History
World History
American History
The Story of Birds
A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
Science
Animals
History
Dorothy Day
A Radical Devotion
Biography
Religion
Spirituality
Eight Days at Yalta
How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
History
World War II
Politics
Operation Paperclip
The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
History
Politics
Science
Shifting the Color Line
Race and the American Welfare State
History
Making Americans
Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
History
An American Summer
True Crime
Sociology
Crime
Rough Country
How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
History
Politics
Religion
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
History
Ancient History
Lebanon
The Moral Economists
R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism
Economics
History
Philosophy
Les Celtes
History
Dostoevsky
A Writer in His Time
Biography
History
Russia
The President and the Parties
The Transformation of the American Party System since the New Deal
Politics
History
Around the World in 80 Trees
Nature
Science
Environment
Full Spectrum
How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
Science
History
Art
Affairs of State
Public Life in Late Nineteenth-Century America
History
Crisis Averted
The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
Science
History
Medical
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
History
Politics
Political Science
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War
How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
History
Biography
Christian
The Devil's Castle
Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today
History
Science
Psychology
The Unintended Reformation
How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
History
Religion
Theology
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876
History
Religion
The Children of Athena. Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome
250 BC - 400 AD
History
Philosophy
Greece
Der Nahost-Komplex
Von Menschen, Träumen und Zerstörung
Politics
History
After Utopia
The Decline of Politcal Faith
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Economics
History
Philosophy
Underland
A Deep Time Journey
Science
Nature
History
Sunbelt Capitalism
Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics
History
Politics
Economics
The Ocean's Menagerie
How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life
Science
Nature
Animals
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Economics
History
Philosophy
The Military Revolution and Political Change
Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
History
Politics
Einstein's Fridge
How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
Science
Physics
History
Genesis
The Deep Origin of Societies
Science
Biology
History
