An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second …
A beautifully illustrated survey of Yellowstone's breathtaking birdlife, written by a team of renowned ornithologists and wildlife biologistsEstablished in 1872, Yellowstone …
A literary and cultural history of coralas an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and …
The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequencesOver the first …
How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug …
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican …
Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi …
How nineteenth-century "e;disciplines of attention"e; anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "e;spiritual but not religious"e;Today, we're …
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonThis volume's 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall at …
A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's northern borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody KnowsBill Helmreich walked every block of New York …
