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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR

Neal Thompson

From Publishers Weekly Thompson's raucous account of NASCAR's early decades raises from obscurity the "motherless,...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Peru

Adele Evans

Known… for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for...

The Light and the Glory

Peter J. Marshall

About the Author Peter Marshall is a writer, historian, Presbyterian minister, teacher, and popular conference speaker....

To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment

Laurence H. Tribe

Brilliant...In their terrific, accessible, and thoughtful new book, To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment , the...

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Like many historians, Taylor stays close to the history she documents and doesn't set out to address the present day in...

Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files

Hugh Newman

Strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, horned skulls, massive jaws that fit over a modern face, and...

Voices of a People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is famous primarily for A People's History of the United States , the book in which he presented...

Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (Spanish Edition)

Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago describe su niñez . . . con una prosa poética [que] nos regresa a nuestros propios días de...

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance

Sam Low

Review This book is an important part of our ‘ōlelo, our history, and it contains the mana of all those who helped...

American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow

Jerrold M. Packard

From Publishers Weekly This is a clear, concise, historical narrative of a draconian reality: how U.S. legal statutes...

The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen

George Laycock

George Laycock has gone to great details to portray the life of Western mountain men, and has done an outstanding...

Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It

David Robertson

In 1822, Denmark Vesey, a Caribbean-born free Negro from Charleston, South Carolina, led the largest attempted slave...

Fifty Places to Ski and Snowboard Before You Die: Downhill Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations

Chris Santella

About the Author Chris Santella is the author of 21 books, including 15 titles in the Fifty Places series. Based in...

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey

From Publishers Weekly Chauncey reconstructs New York's pre-WWII gay community, revealing a group that was deeply...

The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

Michael Kranish

“For anyone interested in cycling, technology or social history…a fascinating ride… Kranish has done historians...

Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France

Peter Caddick-Adams

Sand and Steel will likely be the standard work on D-Day for some time to come." -- The NYMAS Review "It's rare for a...

The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg

Michael Weeks

About the Author Michael Weeks is an amateur historian with a passion for the road. He has driven tens of thousands of...

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Jessica Goudeau

WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZEthe 'Understanding the World' Book of the Year at World Magazine A Best Social...

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections

Tom Brokaw

The popularity and credibility of charismatic news anchor Tom Brokaw ensured bestseller status for The Greatest...

Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up

Alex Speier

“Alex Speier is one of the few writers I’d read on any topic, and he’s written a fascinating book about a...

The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story

Thomas McNamee

Review Praise for Thomas McNamee: The Grizzly Bear is lyrical, lucid, evocative, sometimes funny, and always stylishly...

Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)

John McPhee

“Mr. McPhee has created a style--blending detailed reporting with a novelistic sense of narrative--and a standard...

Our Lost Declaration: America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State

Mike Lee

“The Declaration was a death sentence to those who wrote it and signed it. Today it is nothing less than a death...

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

“This is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend…It’s fucking amazing…This shit goes deep and it’s...