History

Ever ask yourself "What is time"? Ever question the possibility of time travel? Or if the future even exists? If you…

More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery each year—lured there, and to many cemeteries…

A history focused on the radical approaches to psychiatry in the 1970s that included the end of widespread…

From the brilliant author of the acclaimed debut Purple Hibiscus comes a masterful and haunting story of love and war in…

Modern allopathic medicine likes to think of itself as having sprung straight from the robotic, sterile loins of…

Rediscover the radical potential of art with this antidote to those purply grey old art history textbooks they make…

Another book from James Loewen, author of the now classic, Lies My Teacher Told Me. This time around, James begins to…

A gorgeous, full-color coffee table book of photos and text celebrating the life and career of Supreme Court Justice…

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the…

When men told her that women couldn’t become conductors, Antonia Brico wasn’t listening to those discourging words.…

In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates…

Celebrating 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world.…

In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning…

The world is full of things you didn’t know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew.…

In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself…

The Notorious RBG! Dramatically narrated case histories interwoven with an account of RBG’s life and her…

Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs…

Comics journalism about the The Dene, who, by their account, have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time…

Learn about black history in America in an intimate, compelling, and interactive way. Inspired by Velma Maia Thomas’…

The Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521 marked the first organized Filipino resistance against colonization.

In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo…

From mystifying heists to shocking murders, Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating…

Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born in Nigeria in 1900. Funmilayo (the name she went by) was the fisty female…

This book follows the life of early Italian feminist, famous anarchist and unyielding pacifist Leda Rafanelli, focusing…

A bright silver thread of mysticism runs through human history. Well-researched, well-indexed, and nicely illustrated…

The female of the species certainly can be as deadly as the male. Here are 50 short biographies of murdering women,…

Travel to the quaint New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, and experience the beauty of autumn and the spookiness of…

You're not paranoid; of course you're being watched. Watched with ever-increasing, near-constant surveillance, sometimes…

23 fascinating historical anecdotes and incidents involving vegetables. Learn why Roman gladiators were massaged with…