All Categories>History

History
email/print EmailPrint

NEW RELEASES

cover Buy
Breakthrough
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

St. Martin's Griffin
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed...
  
cover Buy
Franklin and Eleanor
An Extraordinary Marriage

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in...
  Bonus
cover Buy
Israel Is Real

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“It’s a great irony that Israel was more secure as an idea than it’s ever been as a nation with an army.” In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a...
cover Buy
Casting with a Fragile Thread
A Story of Sisters and Africa

Picador
One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in...
cover Buy

More formats
Audio
Sweet and Low
A Family Story

Picador
Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later...
cover Buy
Falling Through the Earth
A Memoir

Picador
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun...
cover Buy
Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
cover Buy
A Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

Holt Paperbacks
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December...
cover Buy
Ten Green Bottles
The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

St. Martin's Press
To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffee houses,...
cover Buy
All But My Life
A Memoir

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...