History of Ideas

Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at a living history museum may well have wondered what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing m...

Since its founding in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American c...

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural swerve known as the Renaissance.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundre...

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history....

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the ...