Category History Enthusiasts

The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded,…

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America’s most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable…

Baseball America’s Pastime Unforgettable stories and historic photos bring the golden age of baseball to life. Profiles superstars, record-breakers, and yesterday’s heroes. Get to know the greatest players of all time through fascinating facts and statistics as well as hilarious quotations.…

Unruly David Mitchell Non Fiction In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in…

The Forbidden Daughter Zipora Klein Jakob History Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and…

Thomas Jefferson The Art of Power Jon Meacham Biography Memoir  This magnificent biography brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times, giving us Thomas Jefferson the man, the politician, and the president. A Founder whose understanding of…

True Tales of the Texas Frontier C. Heradon Williams History For eight centuries, the Texas frontier has seen conquest, exploration, immigration, revolution and innovation, leaving to history a cast of fascinating characters and captivating tales. Its historic period began in…

The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson Race In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million…

The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre History If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet…

The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson World War II  On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For…