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How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
Author: Elena Conis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
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The Men of the Mounted
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade
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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
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Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
Author: David Corn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's...
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
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The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
Author: Michael MacCambridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 "Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE...
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Laguna Beach
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New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City
Author: Michael Daly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack...
Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House
Author: Donna Brazile Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned...
Magic Yucatan: A Journey to Remember
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Thrust for Canada
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Here Rolled the Covered Wagons
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Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America
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Going Back To Bisbee
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War Letters
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir
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States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System
A crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism....
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
Life: My Story Through History
Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump
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The Shadows of Elisa Lynch: How a Nineteenth-century Irish Courtesan Became the Most Powerful Woman in Paraguay
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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
Author: Maureen Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Author: Johnny Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City
Author: Michael Daly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack...
After Watergate
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American Future, The A History
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
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The Negro and the Nation
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Author: Tiya Miles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
Sing, and Dont Cry: A Mexican Journal
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American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Author: Santi Elijah Holley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Editors' Pick "Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles Times The long...
A Nation Among Nations
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1929: The Year of the Great Crash
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The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Condoleezza Rice: Naked Ambition
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