History:

Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00

In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.

It was a moment unique in human history... Read more >

Panama Fever
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $16.95

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers... Read more >

Panama Fever
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.95

A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. Begun by the French in 1880, its successful completion in 1914 by the Americans... Read more >

Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $27.50

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.

“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >

Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $18.00

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.

“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Written by Philip Dray

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

It is easy to shrink from our country’s brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation’s closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thousands of victims in the decades between the 1880s and the Second World War, and leaves invisible but deep... Read more >

The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Written by David Dary

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $35.00

A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.

Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >

Saving the Race
Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls
Written by Rebecca Carroll

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it... Read more >

To Begin the World Anew
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements.

Using visual documentation—portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings—as well as written sources, Bailyn, one of our most esteemed historians... Read more >

The Americas
A Hemispheric History
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2006
Price: $11.95

In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers... Read more >

Capoeira
The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace
Written by Gerard Taylor

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2005
Price: $24.95

The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and... Read more >

The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Written by David Dary

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $35.00

A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.

Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >

The Secret in Building 26
The Untold Story of America's Ultra War Against the U-boat Enigma Codes
Written by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $14.95

For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-masters

Much has been written about the success of the British “Ultra” program in cracking the Germans’ Enigma code early in World War II, but few know what really happened in 1942, when the... Read more >

To Begin the World Anew
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95

Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.

The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism... Read more >

The Americas
A Hemispheric History
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $11.95

From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our hemisphere as... Read more >

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Written by Philip Dray

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $16.95

Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who... Read more >