Browsing: History

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s…

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the…

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along…

An illuminating New York Times bestseller! Join an award-winning journalist as he explores intelligent design and how his own understanding of science led him to God. With over 5,100 five-star Goodreads ratings.

An “outstanding” Pulitzer Prize finalist (Booklist): For four decades, the Comanche battled white settlers for control of their tribal lands. This well-researched account is “nothing short of a revelation” (The New York Times Book Review), with over 15,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series. As America’s Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions,…

A Pulitzer Prize–winning account with over 6,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: When four Black men were accused of sexual assault in 1940s Florida, attorney Thurgood Marshall — who went on to become a Supreme Court justice — risked his life to fight a racist criminal justice system and the Ku Klux Klan.

“A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a…

For fans of Downton Abbey: Queen Victoria’s household staff had a unique relationship with the monarch who ruled Britain for more than six decades. This “vivid, entertaining, and often comical portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) views her reign through their eyes.

From the New York Times bestselling author whose story inspired the beloved BBC drama: Midwife Jennifer Worth saw firsthand the unimaginable suffering of those raised in workhouses. Their stories come to life in this portrait of resilience in postwar London. Top-rated on BookBub!