In this fascinating history, Augustine Sedgewick explores the little-known saga of James Hill, an Englishman who founded a coffee dynasty in El Salvador.
In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott vividly portrays the important work and complicated lives of four prominent post-World War I foreign correspondents.
Helen Hamilton Gardener may be the most famous suffrage activist you’ve never heard of, and Free Thinker is the compelling narrative of her life.
Bart D. Ehrman details the development of our ideas of heaven and hell and tells how they evolved in response to different cultural and historical crises.
Susan J. Douglas’ book In Our Prime will inflame the hearts of feminists who joined the movement in the 1970s and those who cut their teeth on #MeToo.
Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism critiques feminism’s exclusionary preference for white women and exhorts those who support changing it for the better.
In his compelling and vivid Congress at War, Fergus M. Bordewich delves deep into the difficult day-to-day politics of the 37th and 38th Congresses.
This thought-provoking meditation on solitude lifts up many writers and artists who have embraced seclusion.
Clement Knox’s Seduction provides an alluring and breathtaking history of enticement in the modern age.
In this eye-opener of a read, Craig Fehrman resurrects many presidential publications and tells how these writings helped secure the U.S. presidents’ legacies.
Master of popular history Erik Larson tells the engrossing story of Churchill’s first year as prime minister in The Splendid and the Vile.
The women behind Disney’s most famous animated features finally get their due in this well-researched book.
We all know Rosa Parks as the woman who resisted yielding her seat to a white man on the bus, but there’s so much more to this titan of American history.
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