History

This volume is a wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s and the Civil War. It effectively integrates social, political and military events from the immediate aftermath of the Mexican War through the secession movement and Civil War. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It...

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House...

This edited volume presents results of 15-year-long excavations and landscape research at Berkeley Castle. Combining archaeological results with information from the castle's 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our understanding of the changes that accompanied the arrival of ...

Political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the entire Thatcher/Major period from the former's election in 1979 to the latter's defeat in 1997 - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party Chairman -...

This is an intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape afte...

In 'Beyond the Wall', acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then ...

Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Their dramatic, often moving story is told in this book.

The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.

In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-19th century onward. These were uncompromising women who...

From bioarchaeologist and author Cat Jarman, this gripping history of the Anglo-Saxons is told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. In 2014 when the chests were opened for the first time to anthropologists and archaeologist, the bones were photographe...