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How do the Pilgrims relate to immigrants today?'However clich茅d,' says The Mayflower' author Rebecca Fraser, 'there is a good deal of truth in the Mayflower legend!'
'The Thin Light of Freedom' is a Civil War history that explores the forging of modern AmericaSmall towns throughout the Great Appalachian Valley changed hands many times during war, and as complicated a military picture as that presents, it represents an even more complicated political and social picture.
'Black Tudors' reveals a surprising and overlooked chapter of historyHidden in British archives and parish records are the identities of dozens of black people who lived in England during Tudor times.
'Troublemakers' follows the meteoric transformation of Silicon Valley鈥檚 founding generation'Troublemakers'聽transports us to a Silicon Valley before the arrival of internet behemoths the likes of Netflix and Salesforce, when giants such as Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel ruled the day.
'Prairie Fires' author Caroline Fraser offers a substantial biography of Laura Ingalls WilderWe meet here a Wilder who embodied 'a great American drama in three acts': poverty, struggle, and reinvention.
'Lenin' illuminates one of history's most destructive leaders'The regime [Lenin] created was largely聽shaped by his personality,' writes Victor Sebestyen, 'secretive, suspicious, intolerant, ascetic,聽intemperate.'聽
The most popular books in every state 鈥� they're not what you thinkWhat's America reading? Politics, advice, and anything with a movie tie-in.
Bumper crop of new US presidents biographies reflects the challenges they all facedFrom John Adams to George H. W. Bush, these seven presidential biographies cover remarkable ground and offer a series of engaging portraits.
'L鈥橝ppart' is a painfully funny story of the joys and pitfalls of making Paris your homeIf you鈥檝e ever dreamed of tossing your return ticket home, David Lebovitz might make you think twice.
Author Malachy Tallack dives into the world of 'un-discovered islands'Some of these 'un-discovered islands' are products of myth and legend like the famous Atlantis. Others have more unexpected origins like fraud. And a few actually were once considered real by scientists and geographers as recently as this decade.
'Franklin D. Roosevelt' examines the now-forgotten political opposition FDR faced at every stageRobert Dallek's FDR is a man of great but always complicated drives.
'Friends Divided' explores the remarkable, stormy friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John AdamsRevolutionary-era historian Gordon S. Wood, in his latest book on the period, makes clear just how fragile the American experiment had become once George Washington retired to Mount Vernon.
'Murder, Magic, and What We Wore' is the Diet Sprite of Regency rompsThe young adult novel聽is full of fits and starts, but charming in a way that feels as sweetly ingenuous as its heroine
How US women transformed the Olympics'Fire on the Track' author Roseanne Montillo says that US athletes competing in the 1928 Olympics聽helped transform women's sports.
'Traces of Vermeer' strives to figure out the actual nitty-gritty of Vermeer's craftJelley is a painter in her own right, which allows her to write with authority.
'Greater Gotham' traces New York's transformation into capital of the Western worldIn this big new book, author Mike Wallace posits that 1898 to 1919 were the years in which New York entered the modern era.
'The Misfit鈥檚 Manifesto' argues in favor of compassion, justice, and love for allBased on her 2016 TED Talk, 鈥淭he Beauty of Being a Misfit,鈥� Lidia Yuknavitch argues that life's most difficult moments can be portals to a new experience.
Philip Pullman releases 'The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage,' to rave reviewsCritics note that the new book is dark, but most agree that it's 'a stunning achievement.'
'Blood Brothers' details the strange, history-defying friendship of Buffalo Bill and Sitting BullSitting Bull toured with Buffalo Bill Cody鈥檚 Wild West show for a four-month period in 1885.
'The Second Coming of the KKK' explores the largely forgotten 1920s resurgence of the KlanThe Klan was 'the biggest social movement of the early twentieth century,' one whose 'ideas echo again today,' writes New York University historian Linda Gordon in her startling new book.
