Sally G. McMillen, Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life
In this accessible, readable, and historically-grounded work, Lucy Stone is finally given the standing she deserves
June 2020
D.H. Akenson, If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730
Akenson provides compelling insights into whether ethnicity was central to the making of the colonial world and the usefulness of studies of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English imperialism in the Americas.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great [...]
Adam H. Domby, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As [...]
Damien Lewis, Churchill’s Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, World War II’s Invisible Secret Weapon
In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device—a “Wurzburg Dish”—appeared to be a [...]
Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy―and explores why some [...]
Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification [...]
Martin Luther King and James M. Washington (ed) A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
These words and others are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential [...]
Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. [...]
May 2020
Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
A powerful tale of upheaval, resilience and hope set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak—the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the world’s population… In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old [...]