Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures ha...

Why is the metaphor of the 'Founding Fathers' so insidious-and how does it impact American politics?

A new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that helped plant the seeds for the United Sta...

In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top...

For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an inn...

A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution.

Informing vivid biographical sketches with a wide range of recent scholarship, The Wilson Circle ...

A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the st...

An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equ...

A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion.

In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power that's unmatched elsewhere in t...

The untold story of Navajo and Hopi resistance and solidarity in the face of forced removal by th...