The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military

A history of the struggle for racial justice in the Armed Services.

Behind the Kitchen Door

An important and timely story about those who prepare and serve our food.

Simon Garfield

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

A history of the increasing accuracy of maps, and a consideration on the zeal maps can rouse, from pleasure to mania to greed.

Neil Shubin

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

This book shows how human evolution connects to the origins of the universe.

By James Salzman

Drinking Water: A History

Should access to water be considered a human right, available free to consumers, or a commodity that can be sold for profit?

Edited by Devon Wm , Biography. Carbado and Donald Weise

The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives

The voices of men and women who sought freedom from slavery are heard in this compilation of 12 thought-provoking and myth-dispelling accounts.

Lamar Waldron

Watergate: The Hidden History, Nixon,The Mafia and The CIA

Information from recently declassified records sheds new light on two of the most sensational episodes of 20th-century American history.

Gordon Bowker

James Joyce: A New Biography

Eschewing a traditional approach, this biographer brings style and grace to a work that helps us really see the life of a great writer.