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History
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to... See More
BONUS: This edition contains a Blindspot discussion guide. Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores -- in the city of Boston, lately... See More
History
National Book Award Finalist From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was... See More
History
BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER ? King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war -- colonists against Indigenous peoples -- that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some... See More
History
"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America's best historians; it's fair to say she's one of its best writers too." -- Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIME A book to be read and... See More
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites... See More
History
From celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories... See More
History
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they... See More
History
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection One of President Bill Clinton's "Best Things I've Read This Year" From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of... See More
History
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our... See More
History
"Nothing short of a masterpiece." -- NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore... See More
Literature & Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story -- and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a... See More
History
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an "exhilarating" (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters... See More
History
From acclaimed bestselling historian Jill Lepore, the story of the American historical mythology embraced by the far right Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution -- so... See More
United States
The nation-state is so dominant today that it seems natural. But no political arrangements are natural, and any concept with a hyphen has a fault line running through it by definition. States are sovereign political... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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History
Show your students the urgency of studying history The United States was founded on a set of "self-evident" truths: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But how well has the nation -- from... See More
Politics & Social SciencesOn January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor... See More