History - Essays

A 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. featuring 1,000 singular moments that shaped the American journey from pre-history to present Filled with more than 300 illustrations, sidebars, and timelines, plus penetrating commentary by prominent historians including Walter Isaacson and Michael Beschloss This lavish narrative,...

Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world. From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and...

Originally published in 1948, 12 Million Black Voices pairs Richard Wright's beautiful prose with stunning photographs from the Farm Security Administration's files from the Great Depression. The images, curated by Edwin Rosskam, include photographs shot by legendary American artists like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange,...

In the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, County Highway is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America's finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of...

"I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again."--Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow"I've been recommending A Brief...

The last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies This 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Lewis Black. "For all those...

A historic collection of the radicals and freethinkers that sparked a country's journey through divinity--praising, challenging, and redefining the sacred.Spanning more than 400 years of spiritual transformation and imagination, A Nation Wrestles with God collects diverse writers--poets, novelists, theologians, scientists, musicians, politicians, comedians, artists,...

A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women's fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig--edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of...

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and...

Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using...

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author...

THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, UPDATED FOR 2025 - A wonder-filled quest to understand everything that has happened in the history of the Earth, from the Big Bang theory to the rise of civilization and beyond--revised to reflect the last two decades of scientific advancement...

A Tapestry of Vivid Strands traces a life shaped by curiosity, perseverance, and the quiet pursuit of understanding. Born into a world newly delivered from war, the author recalls growing up in a 1950s working-class neighborhood on the South End of Columbus, Ohio-a time...

A Text Book Of The Origin And History, Etc. Of The Colored People (1841) is a book written by James W. C. Pennington that explores the history and origin of people of color. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the African...

"Thought-provoking--a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history." --Kirkus (starred review) Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and...

Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place--a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no...

As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. Yet Bierstadt was also a painter of history, and his figural works, replete with images of Plains Indians and the American bison,...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Campos-Duffy and the Fox News family comes a celebration of the people, the history, and the spirit that make America great, from sea to shining sea.For 250 years, the United States has stood for hope, freedom,...

Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are) traces how--and why--we've all become foodies. "Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming...

Before there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latteris an idea. Invented more than discovered, "America" signified a revolutionary ideal of freedom, liberty, equality, and justice, what Tom Paine in Common...