United States - 20th Century
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
$25.00 Add to cartA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics
● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Priz- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Sarotte, M. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268033
- Language: English
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
$32.99 Add to cart“An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay Winik
President Reagan’s dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and a
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0062845691
- Language: English
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Spies in the Family
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer–the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides
- Author: Dillon, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062385909
- Language: English
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The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
$33.00 Read moreAn eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South.
When American fascists suddenly goose-stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was se- Author: Kelly, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 163973211X
- Language: English
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Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship
$29.95 Add to cartA new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusader
Jackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime–the man who broke baseball’
- Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute
- Author: Eisenstadt, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0813955009
- Language: English
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The Colorado Book
$35.00 Add to cartThe Colorado Book brings together some of the voices that have shaped the Centennial State, offering readers an expansive journey through Colorado’s literary, historical, and cultural landscape. Curat… [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 168275331X
- Language: English
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City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
$38.99 Read morePostwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” From its ashes the city reemer
- Author: Williams, Mason B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0393292851
- Language: English
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Summer of ’71: Five Months That Changed America
$29.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning journalist and author John A. Jenkins comes a revolutionary exploration of the summer before Watergate–a parallel world of a half-century ago when America faced events and crises s… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, John A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544465
- Language: English
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Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City’s Italians and the Fight for Civil Rights
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.
This is the true
- Series: Suny Italian/American Culture
- Author: Decker, Jeffrey Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803426
- Language: English
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The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story
$37.95 Add to cartBigfoot! Huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public’s imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern Ca… [more below]
- Author: Long, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591021391
- Language: English
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Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine
$27.95 Add to cartHow the iconic publication’s unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.
Rolling Stone‘s first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the orig- Author: Richardson, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0520399390
- Language: English
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Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America
$30.00 Add to cartIn its early years, Rolling Stone stood out on the magazine rack: an iconoclastic bimonthly aimed at young Americans, dedicated to music, culture, and politics. Magazine cofounder Jann Wenner’s vision
- Author: Ponce de Leon, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1469694395
- Language: English
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The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101252
- Language: English
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The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars
$32.00 Add to cartThe prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America’s culture wars-a story of late 20th century art vs. censorship, brimming with intense drama and fierce moral urgency.
It- Author: Butler, Isaac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733493
- Language: English
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The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery
$35.00 Add to cartThe remarkable untold story of a network of amateur researchers who debunked the Warren Report, raising questions about JFK’s assassination that remain unanswered to this day–a riveting history of ob… [more below]
- Author: Tiffany, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0593728629
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Add to cartAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
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Bad Friday
$16.95 Add to cartOn March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in
- Author: Freedman, Lew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1935347241
- Language: English
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A Sleepy Town Awakens: The Civil Rights Movement in the Town of Plaquemine 1963
$20.95 Add to cart“When we catch Farmer, we’re going to lynch him.” On a warm night in Plaquemine, Louisiana, September 1, 1963, two young black girls heard State Troopers utter these words. What was later coined “Plaq
- Author: Canova, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1977288472
- Language: English
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
$26.00 Add to cartA SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial e- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0812979281
- Language: English
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Hollywood vs. Nazis: How the Movie Studios Took on Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles
$29.00 Add to cartThe true story of Hitler’s plot to turn Hollywood’s Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine–and the Jewish moguls’ clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich’s insidious reach.
World War II beg- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544783
- Language: English
