A pivotal battle of the American Revolution receives an incisive historian’s focus.

A look at history through the lens of three "castes" who have competed and collaborated to shape human societies.

The journal of a sixteenth-century headsman gives a view of early modern life from its terminus.

Tales of the High Bench's history, from the first female justice to take her place on the Court.

An all-inclusive blueprint of charming Lotharios through the ages.

A historian's inquiry into her Caribbean roots becomes a journey into a plantation's cruelties.

A century of ambition and bloodshed in Colonial America.

When the menace of Stalinism knew no borders.

The beginning of a complex relationship.

How the powers that had lined up against the Axis shifted positions to begin a chilly new conflict.

The fight over free speech on one campus and a secret campaign against academic activists.

In surviving eight assassination attempts, the queen cemented the British monarchy's popularity.

A quarter century before the Civil War, tensions over slavery erupted in the nation's capital.

A hundred years before Occupy Wall Street, a movement aimed at the structures of power seemed ready to explode.

The Rough Rider versus the Rotten Apple.

From Johnny Appleseed to James K. Polk, the Americans who embodied Manifest Destiny.

The little-known story of the shooting of the twentieth president, and its aftermath.

The suffering and sacrifice of a city under historic siege.

African-American troops returned from World War I to find a new battle waiting  at home.

Surveying the longest uninterrupted monarchy in the world.

How a former burglar and prison escape artist founded the police force as we know it.

A British writer puts the spectacle of the American Civil War on a transatlantic stage.

A grand attempt to map the birth and development of modern government.

The grand old history of names, narratives, and nations returns in the newest volume in the Penguin History of Europe.

Taking apart an auto plant, after the last workers have been let go.

The true story of one mother's crusade to reclaim her children sheds light on the history of a famous religious sect, and women's struggle for legal rights.

The shadowy allure of New York City's once-vibrant port, and the scandal that inspired On the Waterfront.

A lawyer assembles a remarkably detailed history of English anti-Semitism, from the Middle Ages to the present.

The acclaimed biographer of Balzac and Victor Hugo reveals the secret history of Paris, from Marie Antoinette to Mitterand.

The author of Agent Zigzag reveals the true story of Britain's most ingenious WWII espionage ploy.