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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

Carrie Gibson

An Observer (UK) Best History Book of the YearA Hudson Booksellers' Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “Gibson knows...

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

Martha A. Sandweiss

From Booklist During America’s Gilded Age, Clarence King was a famous geologist, friend of wealthy, famous, and...

The Indian War of 1864

Eugene Fitch Ware

About the Author This Bison Book edition carries a new introduction by John D. McDermott, the author of Forlorn Hope:...

Dimestore: A Writer's Life

Lee Smith

An Amazon Best Book of March 2016: “What is it about Appalachia that so captures the mind, echoes in the ear, and...

How the States Got Their Shapes

Mark Stein

From Publishers Weekly America's first century was defined by expansion and the negotiation of territories among areas...

Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868

Cokie Roberts

Review “Cokie Roberts regularly dissects the power dynamics of modern-day Washington. As an author, though, she’s...

A Death in Belmont

Sebastian Junger

Imagine how strange and frightening it would be to see a picture of yourself, not quite a year old, with your mother...

A Death in Belmont (P.S.)

Sebastian Junger

“Junger’s clear, beautifully reasonable writing is the literary equivalent of night-vision goggles....He’s...

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Greg Grandin

“Grandin tells a gripping story of high hopes and deep failure, a saga that in some ways is a morality tale for the...

The Undertaker's Daughter

Kate Mayfield

Mayfield's depiction of her Southern Gothic childhood, with its dark corners and eccentric characters, is fascinating,...

The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

Jo Ivester

“What makes this book particularly valuable is its vivid depiction of the abhorrent consequences of legalized...

The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson

Robert Hofler

From Publishers Weekly Those who think Hollywood's current predatory political scene and celebrity partner-swapping...

The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

Bernard Bailyn

“Bailyn spares no gory detail, but he treats his subjects with sympathy.” — The New Yorker “ The Barbarous...

Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire

Elaine Shannon

“An investigative masterpiece...fascinating look...LeRoux is...one of the most intriguing and frightening criminals...

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Tim Jeal

Jeal recounts each perilous expedition to unlock the secrets of the Nile watershed with an astonishing clarity and...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Steven Stoll

Short-listed for the 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award "The book is a masterpiece of panoramic...

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

John Demos

Fascinating and alluring in the way the best writing on history can be."-- The Observer "Powerful and useful. . ....

Changing My Mind

Margaret Trudeau

About the Author From the heights of fame to despair, and from illness to robust health, MARGARET TRUDEAU , Canada’s...

One-Night Stands with American History

Richard Shenkman

Richard Shenkman is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and the New York Times bestselling...

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

Paulina Bren

More than a biography of a building, the book is an absorbing history of labor and women’s rights in one of the...

The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

Wayne Worcester

Raymond Patriarca - a mob boss more frightening and more powerful than Whitey Bulger on his best day. I thought I knew...

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

James M. McPherson

The New York Times Book Review: “The best concise book we have on the subject.” The Wall Street Journal : “Mr....

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

Bill James

“An engagingly written history of well-publicized deadly crimes.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For true-crime...

Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

Jack Parlett

“A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia, a site of riotous hedonism, wild creativity and immense...