History

A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship

A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan

A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers

A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America

A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice

An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South

A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power

A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis

A panoramic history of rules in the Western world

An innovative framework for advancing human rights

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life

A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States

“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution

A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor

A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture

One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad

A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era

A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period

An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe

An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order

A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British life

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize

From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politics

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and power

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance

A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence

A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam

A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries

An unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade

An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe

A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference

A wondrous story of scientific endeavor—probing the great ice sheets of Antarctica

A marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diary

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created

A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize

From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations

A compact, incisive history of a war that was an ominous prelude to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics

In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development...

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium

A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern world

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity

How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology

An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents

A history of the battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and more

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politics

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learning

How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature

How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn