Brought to life by Arthur Goldhammer’s clear, fluid, and vigorous translation, this volume of Democracy in America is the first to fully capture Tocqueville’s achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound ...

This is history on a grand scale—a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize.

Kirk Savage's Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves eloquently and authoritatively exposes the way racial dominance has been literally built into the public space that surrounds us--space in which it is, for this reason, increasingly difficult ...

Argues that each succeeding group to occupy the American West exploited the land and native inhabitants to reap short term financial benefits

This work catapults Gordon-Reed into the very first rank of historians of slavery.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The ...

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America.