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Written by Italian scholar Raffaello Piccoli, As An Italian Sees It is a bracing, outsider’s meditation on the American character at the dawn of the modern age. With luminous prose and a philosopher’s rigor, Piccoli traces the nation’s Puritan roots and Cavalier countercurrent, the rise of...

Whiting Award–winning historian Grace Elizabeth Hale investigates the violent Brookside coal strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, revealing the dramatic, uplifting story behind one of the most significant labor struggles of the twentieth century and how more than fifty years later it continues...

Dieses außergewöhnliche Buch erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte des Basketballsports von James Naismith über Dr. J bis LeBron James und Dirk Nowitzki. Vielmehr verknüpft Autor Philipp „Dembo" Dembowski die sportliche Entwicklung mit der kulturgeschichtlichen: vom Kampf der afroamerikanischen Spieler in den USA für mehr Gleichberechtigung, über die Herkunft lässiger Baller-Outfits, fette Rhymes und Hip-Hop-Beats bis hin zur Frage, welches Basketballschuhdesign das beste aller Zeiten ist. Ein Buch, das kracht wie ein Slam Dunk von Michael Jordan oder ein Alley-Oop von Shaquille O'Neal.

An inspiring collection of speeches by the 44th President of the United States. Yes We Can! consists of speeches by Barack Obama—before and after his ascent to the presidency—and includes his entire inaugural address as an added bonus. These recordings showcase President Obama's powerful...

A bracing, clear-eyed tour of America through British eyes, As An Englishman Sees It weighs the promise and perils of a nation in the wake of war and on the cusp of modernity. Henry L. Stuart begins with a striking scene in Paris and expands it into a provocative thesis: the United States and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Donnerstag, 4. August 1892. In Fall River, Massachusetts, ist es schon früh am Tag drückend warm, als ein Dienstmädchen in seiner Dachkammer die Rathausglocke elf schlagen hört. Wenige Minuten später ruft eine Stimme das Treppenhaus hinauf...

Beneath the highways and hockey rinks, beneath the cottage docks and the parking lots, Ontario is thousands of years deep. Long before the first European map was ever drawn, this land was crowded with life: hunters tracking caribou along the shore of a vanished glacial sea, artists carving a...

In the 1850 Gold Rush, San Francisco was a city filled with chaos and greed. Aidan OReilly, an enterprising Irishman, poses as an undertaker to bury the secrets of the upper class fraudulent contracts, incriminating letters, and even murder victims. His caskets and mausoleums also contain his...

This is a historical fiction opening chapter set during and after World War II, focusing on the emotional impact of war on one American family, the Holtoms. The story begins in Palo Alto, California in 1942, where the Holtom family receives devastating news that their son, Captain Gerald Holtom...

New Social Studies at my Old High School How quaintor is this kind of lame? thought artist Lee Knapp after she half-heartedly returned to teach history at her old public high school. Because her private history was in a state of upheaval, it seemed she had no choice. It turned out to be...

The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades—and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths.

A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times A spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with...

「戦争か平和か」という単純な二元論を打ち砕く秘密工作の実態と、国際政治の暗部でうごめく冷酷な権力闘争の歴史を紐解き、複雑な世界情勢を読み解くための圧倒的な視座を提供します。毎日の通勤時間や知的な刺激...

Step into the oral tradition of the Zuni people through the pioneering work of Frank Hamilton Cushing, one of the earliest ethnographers to record Native American folklore from within the community itself.

The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount Desert Island. After an extremely dry summer, all areas of Maine spent the month of October...

When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head: he would let the stories come to him. He invited listeners to submit brief, true-life anecdotes about events that touched their lives. And so the National Story...

既成のルールを打ち破る即興のエネルギーが、抑圧された社会の周縁からいかにして世界的な音楽革命へと変貌を遂げたのかを紐解く、情熱的で反骨の文化論。通勤の喧騒を抜け出す時や、一日の終わりに深い知的な没入...

Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, fitted with more advanced safety features than any of her rivals, she was proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable. Just how and why the Titanic foundered on such a beautiful April evening is the subject of this fascinating book.

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence. The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the...