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In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish...

Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank González-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive healthcare practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today.

Once close friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson became bitter rivals as they fought for control of the young government.

Few—if any—books have had a more profound and lasting impact on society than this extraordinary piece of reporting that shook the very foundation of American politics.

William Langewiesche furnishes a riveting firsthand account of the excavation of the World Trade Center ruins following its destruction on September 11, 2001....

Almost 10 times as many men died in the Civil War prison camps of the North and South as were killed...

From a leading historian comes a powerful, iconoclastic narrative history of the final month of the Civil War, when Richmond fell, Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and Lincoln was assassinated.

Best-selling author Richard E. Rubenstein brings the past to life in this engrossing story of social, religious, and scientific revolution during one of the darkest periods in European history....

From the bestselling author of "Cicero" comes a sweeping, panoramic biography of Rome's first emperor.

Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America’s national pastime.

Acclaimed author, historian, and Guggenheim Fellow Kevin Starr is a professor at the University of Southern California. His extensive knowledge shines through this concise, yet comprehensive, depiction of the most fascinating aspects in California’s history.

This pamphlet, first published in 1776, set in print the word every American was thinking about, but...

From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.

Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....

The heinous mutiny aboard the whaleship Globe in 1824 is one of the bloodiest and most notorious incidents in maritime history....

This fictional account of Orwell's salad days as a penniless British writer in the early 1930's contains...

In Empires of Trust, Professor Thomas F. Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics.

Here are six fascinating, well-researched chapters involving such icons as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

The first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, Jean Froissart chronicled events during...

In this fast-paced epic, best-selling historian and master storyteller Arthur Herman spotlights two giants of the 20th century.

This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader....

This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past....

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This book, a masterpiece by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Hersey, reveals what happened on that day.

Recently, Washington's papers were catalogued at the University of Virginia. Joseph J. Ellis had primary access to the 90-volume papers, allowing him to paint a thorough and fascinating portrait.

Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong.