United States

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence. The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the...

Storming London as a black guitarist in a world of white musicians, Jimi Hendrix reclaimed rock and roll as true American music.His first guitar was an old, beat-up acoustic that he carried on his back through the streets of Seattle.For years, he played the Chitlin Circuit in the South, learning...

In 1947, filled with courage, skill, and determination, Jackie Robinson changed history by becoming the first African American player in the major leagues. But how did this happen? Who thought of this idea for great social change?His name was Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn...

Sixty-five years after the drive, nobody has settled what happened on Route 3.On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill left a restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire, and headed home to Portsmouth through the White Mountains. They arrived after five in the morning, hours later...

“Exceptional…This is a much-needed reframing of what catalyzes civil strife.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review What can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us in the past? Connor Williams’s The Confederacy Myth answers that question with a...

Bloomsbury presents Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage by Spencer Weber Waller, read by Parker Sawyers. Since the second half of the 19th century, live entertainment in the United States has been governed by monopolies and powerful business cartels. Through...

Four presidents murdered. Four more who barely survived. And the attacks keep coming.Since Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, the presidency of the United States has been the most dangerous job in the world. In this gripping account, author John Dean Bush takes readers...

Step into a rich and living world where stories, traditions, and dreams guide the path of a people. Anishinaabe Dreams: Stories of Tradition, Survival, and Identity invites readers on an accessible journey through the culture and history of the Anishinaabe, blending engaging storytelling with...

The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with...

After six years of deadlock, the American Revolution seemed lost. But in January 1781, the mysterious Francisco de Saavedra appeared in Havana, secretly uniting French and Spanish forces in support of the rebel cause. The result? The stunning victory at the Battle of Yorktown...

A sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades between the ends of World War I and World War II, when a mainly rural, isolationist republic was transformed into a nuclear superpower and the leader of the free world. Through the prosperous 1920s and its culture wars to the Great...

Read by award-winning actress Kate Mulgrew "What an incredible life of triumph and tragedy, faith, and love." — Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vanderbilt A vivid, intimate biography of American icon Ethel Kennedy by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, told through her...

“Brian Kilmeade provides us with a variation of Profiles in Courage focused on our Founders. It ranges from John Adams, who made the controversial decision to legally represent British soldiers who were part of the Boston Massacre, to his son John Quincy Adams, who defends the enslaved...

For fans of the beloved HBO series The Gilded Age, a definitive volume on life and thought in America during the era—now reissued with a beautiful new cover. With Season 3 of the hit Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age breaking records in summer 2025 with its highest ratings ever—and...

An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they were household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place was...

National Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller - Publishers Weekly Bestseller There is one human characteristic that separates those who see a world full of problems from those who see a world full of potential: hope. Hope is not in short supply; it is everywhere. Venture-philanthropy leader Jim...

The most dangerous political alliance of the twenty-first century is not one of nations, but one of ideologies—Marxism and Islamism. In When Marx Meets Islam, sociologist Craig Considine delivers an urgent and unsparing critique that exposes this toxic new convergence, which is fueled by...

The unsung story of heroic World War II combat nurses sent into the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa to save thousands of American soldiers and Marines The Pacific Theater was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in...

In A Brief History of Salem, Derek Monaghan delivers a sweeping, cinematic journey through one of America’s most storied places — a town shaped by windlashed shores, colonial ambition, and the haunting legacy of 1692. Across ten immersive chapters, Monaghan traces Salem’s evolution from...

Pass It On! by Gloria J. McEwen Burgess and illustrated by Gerald Purnell is an historical visual biography of the intertwined legacies of the author’s father, Earnest McEwen Jr., and Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner. As a young boy in the segregated South of...

Discover the extraordinary journey of a city that rose from untamed swamplands to become one of the world’s most vibrant cultural and economic hubs. History of Miami is a captivating, fastpaced exploration of the people, events, and forces that shaped the Magic City into the tropical...

New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment. It is also the Land of Contradictions, Complications, Questionable Decisions, and Some Really Good Green Chile.New Mexico has been home to ancient civilizations, Spanish settlers, Mexican revolutionaries, outlaws, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and...

In this second edition, newly-declassified documents exclusively reveal Washington’s decades-long cover-up of the truth about the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Spike Dubs.For the first time, Murder In Room 117 reveals the findings of the lead investigator in the case, conclusions Washington...

When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been in existence for seven seasons and were tasked with the monumental burden of representing the still-fledgling American Football League against the NFL’s team of the decade. The Chiefs won their...

West Virginia is what happens when a group of mountain counties looks at the rest of their state and says, "Absolutely not."Created during the Civil War through one of the strangest political maneuvers in American history, West Virginia became a land of coal booms, labor wars, moonshine legends...