History of the Americas

Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to Am...

A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by ...

A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relatio...

On October 1, 1920, the city of Santiago, Chile, came to a halt as tens of thousands stopped work and their daily activities to join the funeral pr...

En 1941, l''Allemagne nazie se lance a l''assaut de l''Union sovietique; le Japon attaque les Etats-Unis. La guerre est desormais mondiale et touch...

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asksdo we truly li...

The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the war...

Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer...

'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards p...

Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeWinner of the PROSE Award in United States HistoryHagley Prize in Business ...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

Manipulative Cabinet members, opportunistic hack congressmen, a people yearning for freedom-does this sound familiar?But we are not talking about p...

From Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, Americans have little to admire in the legacies of our presidents -150,000 military lives lost, a $100 trillio...

This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of...

From the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking ac...