History

In this entertaining and intriguing book, author Ilise S. Carter dives deep into the history of lipstick in America. One…

Celebrate Black history with these beautifully illustrated postcards. Featuring more than 50 Black women, from Harriet…

World-traveling and time-traveling throughout the past 10,000 years of human history, this book is the history nerd's…

A work of fiction set during the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2013, I Will Die In A Foreign Land traces the paths of…

In Wisconsin, Latinx workers have mobilized with the group Voces de la Frontera in order to defeat efforts to…

In 1739, a group of enslaved people fled their plantation in the Charles Town area and headed south towards…

As the 70s reached their conclusion, a physics professor from Haverford College began a quest to do something that to…

Witchcraft has experienced a resurgence in recent years, from something that was once a deadly accusation to a now…

We've been fascinated by the heavens for the entirety of our known history as a species. Ancient petroglyphs show that…

In the days before the civil rights era, the rural American South was a difficult place to be Black. The author of this…

In this book, now banned from schools in the state of Tennessee, follow Art Spiegelman as he reckons with his own…

In this elegantly written history of the Black Panthers for younger readers, authors Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom,…

From the publishers of the bestselling Queer: A Graphic History and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, this new…

Brought to you by award winning journalist and Rolling Stone contributing editor, David Kushner, A for Anonymous how a…

This history of medical disaster, especially relevant in the post-COVID era, chronicles the diseases that have done the…

A fascinating and original book, Ain't I A Diva? is the final product of Professor Kevin Allred's interdisciplinary…

The last forty years have brought some truly revolutionary changes to the publishing industry, fueled by the rise of…

Any activist's necessity for 25 years, the large Slingshot organizer is a spiral-bound 2021 day planner that lies flat…

In this psychedelically illustrated volume, author and illustrator Brian Blomerth recounts the story of R. Gordon and…

Spike Lee. World-renowned, Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Cultural icon. One of the most prominent voices on race and…

The definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and…

In this highly disturbing, highly engaging book, author Elizabeth Catte takes an unsparing look at the history of…

This fascinating, illustrated history walks you through little-known, lost, and uncompleted works of fantasy and sci fi…

A thorough recounting of history's female con artists and the scams they pulled off. Elizabeth Holmes has been making…

In this scientific history of mammals, author Liam Drew sets out to explain why it is that humans are mammals and how…

If you've heard of the Witches' Sabbath, you may associate it with all kinds of devilry and ill omens. This book is…

Sojourner Truth was famous for her dedication to the abolitionist and feminist causes, and for overcoming such radical…

From historical archives and celebrity guests come 200 of the craziest and funniest lists, from Most Offensive Songs to…