History

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor…

Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste…

This history is a tribute to the influential pioneers who have shaped the fantastic world of drag, as well as the…

This is the story of a century and a half of participation by black people in US electoral politics from Reconstruction…

Karl Marx was among the most influential thinkers of the late 19th century, inspiring revolutions in people’s minds…

During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was famed in England and the American colonies…

A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic…

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious about the…

Crime writer James Ellroy teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present this look back at what police were up…

There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the…

Ancient Pacific Northwest Coastal epic from the Samish people, as told by master storyteller, spiritual teacher and…

Learn how women in the margins built modern feminism. From the declaration of the "Year of the Woman" to the televising…

Ever ask yourself "What is time"? Ever question the possibility of time travel? Or if the future even exists? If you…

More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery each year—lured there, and to many cemeteries…

From the brilliant author of the acclaimed debut Purple Hibiscus comes a masterful and haunting story of love and war in…

Modern allopathic medicine likes to think of itself as having sprung straight from the robotic, sterile loins of…

Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on…

Another book from James Loewen, author of the now classic, Lies My Teacher Told Me. This time around, James begins to…

A gorgeous, full-color coffee table book of photos and text celebrating the life and career of Supreme Court Justice…

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the…

When men told her that women couldn’t become conductors, Antonia Brico wasn’t listening to those discourging words.…

In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates…

Celebrating 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world.…

With this inspiring and brightly illustrated guide to power, learn about the different types of power, what it means to…

In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning…

What would you do with all the historical facts and tales left out of history textbooks? From the host of the popular…

The world is full of things you didn’t know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew.…

In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself…

The Notorious RBG! Dramatically narrated case histories interwoven with an account of RBG’s life and her…