-This richly illustrated book tells the remarkable life story of Tecumseh--one of the great leade...

The remarkable memoir of growing up in a communist family at the height of the Cold War by the la...

Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what ...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Li...

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napole...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Li...

In the 20th century, the availability and low cost of oil triggered the industrial growth and dev...

'Democracy' explains the rise of this form of government and how women and minorities struggled f...

A fascinating look at empires and imperialism, and the new kind of empire the United States has b...