Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan ...

The cause for which the colonists fought, liberty and independence, was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world, capturing the profound and passionate struggle to found a free nation.

In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries.

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This work demonstrates Edmund Burke's ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. It was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.

This work catapults Gordon-Reed into the very first rank of historians of slavery.

This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents.

Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed.