1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1 (1-4000-3205-9)

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

In the last twenty years, archeologists and anthropologists equipped with a battery of new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries that have completely changed their understanding... Read more >

Baseball
A History of America's Favorite Game
Written by George Vecsey

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $21.95
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 978-0-679-64338-8 (0-679-64338-9)

One of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of baseball, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the sport, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: making a classic story seem refreshingly new.

Baseball... Read more >

Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8311-4 (1-4000-8311-7)

A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Winner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007
On December 1, 2006, Timothy B. Tyson received the Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007 from officials at the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tyson is the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, his... Read more >

Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
Written by Joseph J. Ellis

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70524-3 (0-375-70524-4)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–set the course for our nation.

Joseph Ellis illuminates the profoundly deep bonds and the... Read more >

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Written by Jack Weatherford

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-609-80964-8 (0-609-80964-4)

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or... Read more >

How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Written by Arthur Herman

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-609-80999-0 (0-609-80999-7)

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the... Read more >

I Wish I'd Been There
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
Written by Byron Hollinshead

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9654-1 (1-4000-9654-5)

I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians’ responses to the question “What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history’s... Read more >

Love and Hate in Jamestown
John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
Written by David A. Price

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3172-6 (1-4000-3172-9)

A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company—which financed the settlement of Jamestown—David Price tells a tale of cowardice and... Read more >

The Mercury 13
The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Written by Martha Ackmann
Foreword by Lynn Sherr

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-375-75893-5 (0-375-75893-3)

In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by... Read more >

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2004
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-49554-7 (0-385-49554-4)

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.

The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely... Read more >

A Savage War of Peace
Algeria 1954-1962
Written by Alistair Horne

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $19.95
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 978-1-59017-218-6 (1-59017-218-3)

Although war was never formally declared, the Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused six French governments to fall, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, brought De Gaulle back to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim... Read more >

Thurgood Marshall
American Revolutionary
Written by Juan Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 504 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-8129-3299-7 (0-8129-3299-4)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From the acclaimed author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice. Thurgood Marshall stands today as the great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v.  Board of Education decision... Read more >

The Way of the World
From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
Written by David Fromkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-76669-8 (0-679-76669-3)

“Ambitious... The truth is that Fromkin’s outline is persuasively thought out and presented.”—The Washington Post Book World

As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trouble us as much as those that concern our future. How did we get here? Where--and how--did Homo sapiens originate? How did we,... Read more >

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4159-6 (1-4000-4159-7)

“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting... Read more >