HISTORY

While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Learn More

Chomsky reinterprets the last 3 decades! Learn More

In Trinity, illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm tells the history of the race to build - and the decision to drop - the first atomic bomb, and the ethical debates that followed. Learn More

A new look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable. Learn More

In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Learn More

The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an indispensable guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues in the upcoming election. Learn More

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Learn More

The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. Learn More

A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting. Learn More