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The Pioneers
David McCullough
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Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As... |
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Ten Drugs
Thomas Hager
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Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager... |
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Shotguns and Stagecoaches
John Boessenecker
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The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western... |
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Devil's Mile
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
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Publisher's Weekly: "Fascinating...astutely written and smartly researched."Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd: "Devil's Mile is a terrific read. Alice Sparberg Alexiou knows her history, and she brings it all brimming to life here in the story of the Bowery, the most notorious street... |
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The Apparitionists
Peter Manseau
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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of lost loved ones alongside his living subjects. At a time when artists... |
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Future Tense
Jonathan Sacks
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One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of "a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies" and to reclaim Judaism's original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in the never-ending... |
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