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
From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.鈥檚 decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom鈥攁nd how their conflicting visions still divide American politics
Over one million copies sold worldwide
The international and #1 New York Times bestseller
The anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying
A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks鈥攖o our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestors
An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuity
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize
A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West
Winner of the Istv谩n Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History
Finalist for the Cundill History Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The hidden hands behind history鈥檚 great scholarly works
Leading historians offer the first look at Biden鈥檚 four years in the White House
The emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes
A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes
A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has worked鈥攁nd not worked鈥攆or Jews in the United States
The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great Britain
Tracing the origins of Britain鈥檚 current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectual
Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the 鈥減aranoid style鈥� to QAnon
How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political power
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of 鈥渢he Wandering Jew鈥�
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age