History

From the start of the European slave trade around the year 1500 through the U.S. Civil War in 1865, 15…

Putting the cat back in catastrophe and the dog in doggoned, Pet Noir entertains (and informs) by turning traditional…

The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South Bay punk scenes, populated by blue collar kids who responded to the violence…

The road paved by our civilization’s best books is a long and noble one, but it is also lined with unexpected potholes…

More than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and…

When there is alcohol, there is often a hangover. But how do you cure one? Science holds few definitive answers. The…

At the end of the 19th century, young botanist David Fairchild set out to find foods from around the world that U.S.…

Trees are amazing! You don't need to be a tree hugger to love trees. The Little Book of Trees is crammed with facts,…

During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in…

Pirates, Olympic skiiers, French revolutionaries. What do all of these have in common? If your guess was that each…

During the bloody Third Reich, Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds—especially those…

Mudslinging, smear campaigns, opposition research, sex scandals, corruption, shade-throwing, and name-calling—this…

If you don’t believe that one dog has the power to change the course of history, then you’ve obviously never heard…

Explore the colorful lives of 50 powerful gods and goddesses, earth-dwelling mortals, and terrifying monsters as you…

In 1981, the Soviet-backed Polish government declared martial law to crush a budding democratic opposition movement.…

A fascinating, illustrated guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism, tracing the origins of…

With a president who continually validates and emboldens fascists in America, there has never been a time where…

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask. A new revised and updated edition of the…

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem…

Lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call…

Humans have cultivated the milk of mammals ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago.…

Street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. Addresses arose out of a…

Political scientist Eric Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in North American and Western Europe.…

Medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen's timeless writing and divine inspirations invite us to celebrate life and delight…

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about mummies, new facts are unearthed. Mummies Exposed! goes…

Philip Hook’s riveting narrative takes us from the early days of art dealing in Antwerp, where paintings were sold by…

Peter J. Tomasi and illustrator Sara DuVall bring to life the construction of one of the most iconic landmarks in the…

A gleefully ghastly accounting of the entire postmortem experience, in which you'll learn that the human head is the…