History
A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar鈥攁s well as crypto and central bank digital currencies
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital
From The New York Times鈥揵estselling and Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson鈥檚 writings on race that every American should read
A sweeping history of the Italian Jewish experience from antiquity to today
A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world
How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar鈥檚 heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of Rome
A provocative new history of America鈥檚 constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined
A new history of slavery and the French Revolution
From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia
What caused the world鈥檚 great republics to fall鈥攁nd what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies today
The ultimate collection of Einstein鈥檚 public writings on everything from religion and art to pacifism and the atomic bomb
The ultimate collection of Einstein鈥檚 scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativity
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization鈥攆rom Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos
An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field
From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence鈥攁nd a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later
An investigation of a cosmic experiment
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia鈥攁nd why killing the dead is better than killing the living