Ben Maxwell William T. Wescott tried minding his own business and staying out of trouble. When war engulfed the country, he moved his family safely out of the way and...

Guy LarsonWar Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History Soon to be a major motion picture from the director...

Jonathan Raban From the best-selling author of Passage to Juneau—“Raban at his best,” wrote Ian McEwan—an unsettling, tender, and always surprising novel set in Seattle at the turn of the...

Nancy Isenberg In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the...

Pamela S Nadell and Jonathan D Sarna, editorsIn April 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that Jews "live in extraordinary times, when American women have transformed...

David R Roediger At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He...