History:

Framing a Legend
Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Written by M. Andrew Holowchak

Format: Hardcover, 275 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.00

A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children, a conclusion based on a 1998 DNA... Read more >

Framing a Legend
Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Written by M. Andrew Holowchak

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99

A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children, a conclusion based on a 1998 DNA... Read more >

Proving History
Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Written by Richard C. Carrier

Format: Hardcover, 340 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $28.00

Anyone with an interest in historical methods, how historical knowledge can be justified, new applications of Bayes’s Theorem, or the study of the historical Jesus will find this book to be essential reading.Almost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a composite of myth, legend, and some historical... Read more >

Proving History
Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Written by Richard C. Carrier

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $12.99

Anyone with an interest in historical methods, how historical knowledge can be justified, new applications of Bayes’s Theorem, or the study of the historical Jesus will find this book to be essential reading.Almost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a composite of myth, legend, and some historical... Read more >

Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
Written by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Format: eBook, 216 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $18.00

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Read more >

Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2011
Price: $13.99

In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
Written by Howard Zinn

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $16.00

Beacon Press is proud to publish a new edition of the classic memoir by one of our most lively, influential, and engaged teachers and activists. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at... Read more >

Dangerous Games
The Uses and Abuses of History
Written by Margaret MacMillan

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused... Read more >

Dangerous Games
The Uses and Abuses of History
Written by Margaret MacMillan

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $22.00

Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and “great storyteller” (The New York Review of Books), explores here the many ways in which history–its values and dangers–affects us all, including how it is used and abused. The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 and Nixon and Mao reveals how a deeper... Read more >

Dangerous Games
The Uses and Abuses of History
Written by Margaret MacMillan

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $11.99

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused... Read more >

A History of Histories
Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
Written by John Burrow

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $18.00

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to... Read more >

Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $18.00

In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95

   From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.

   In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."  Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and...

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $11.99

   From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.

   In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."  Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and...

Read more >

A History of Histories

Written by John Burrow

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.99

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to... Read more >

Howard Zinn
A Radical American Vision
Written by Davis D. Joyce

Format: Hardcover, 275 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $26.99

One of the most popular alternative histories of America is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Originally published in 1980, this "new left textbook," which looks at American history "from below" - i.e., from the perspective of the disenfranchised and marginalized - has sold one million copies... Read more >