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Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative history demonstrates the importance of slavery in the making of this renowned American institution of higher learning.

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.  

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves - but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves.

In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims' definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow.

As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten, "Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now." Freeman, one of the sharpest editors working today, has followed the evolution of California's literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal's popular California Book Club, he offers an essential road map to California literature now.

Learn about the bomb blast that rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, killing four young girls.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest...

Discover the remarkable journey of Salt Lake City—from a remote desert basin to one of America’s most unique and thriving metropolitan centers. This engaging historical guide uncovers the people, events, and forces that shaped Utah’s capital across nearly two centuries.Rooted in the...

Why do humans need ghosts? And what do our ghosts have to teach us?Gaines Quammen looks history straight in the eye.LEAH SOTTILE, Blazing Eye Sees AllThis Haunted Land investigates some of Americas most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling...

The Plott bear hound, a dog originally from Germany and developed in the North Carolina mountains, is known as one of the world's best hunting dog breeds. Recognized now as one of the premier hunting dogs in America, the Plott bear hound is unique among hunting dog breeds because it descends...

Diane J. Purvis’s memoir offers a unique view from the Los Angeles County suburbs as she was coming of age during the era of civil rights activism, the women’s movement, and Vietnam anti-war movement. More than Flower Power recalls the youthful energy that surged in the 1960s as political...

Experience Santa FeArt, Culture, History, and the Spirit of the SouthwestWhat makes Santa Fe one of America’s most beloved travel destinations?Is it the centuries of history found in its adobe streets? The world-famous art galleries of Canyon Road? The flavors of New Mexico’s legendary...

From an award-winning producer of the hit podcast Serial comes a mischievous and poignant saga that reads a bit like a feminist-retelling of Lonesome Dove, about a group of mothers on the Texas prairie who leave their husbands to live by their own rules. This is the exhilarating true story of a...

Just a few decades ago, as recently as the Clinton years, we had a vibrant nation that inspired the rest of the world. But then a new religion called Secular Humanism took hold. It saw wrongs that needed to be righted, but went overboard as its revolutionary zeal carried it to excesses that plague our nation today. Clawback proposes a roadmap to get back to the nation we once had when common sense superseded idealistic and impractical zeal.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” This phrase was supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, and it became a defining expression of a turbulent time in American history. Throughout the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color.

Four presidents murdered. Four more who barely survived. And the attacks keep coming.Since Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, the presidency of the United States has been the most dangerous job in the world. In this gripping account, author John Dean Bush takes readers...

Follow Edie Sedgwick, Barbara Rubin, Andy Warhol, and Bob Dylan as they traverse the frenetic art and underground film world of the mid-60s in New York City. New York City, 1964: a new scene is bringing together rock musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, and writers. This downtown network will...

Barbara Jordan spoke for many Texas women when she told a reporter, "I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit." Indeed, the...

On a cold winter night, a passenger jet with 189 aboard crash landed, out of fuel, in a suburban neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Ten people died. The pilot was blamed and stripped of his career, and a sweeping transformation of flight-crew training took place that made United Flight 173 (in)famous worldwide as the model for failure and change. That was only the half of it. Crash Course, by award-winning journalist Julie Whipple, is the long-overdue, true story of a misunderstood airline tragedy that changed more about our daily lives than most people know.  

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.