Letter-writing in the 18th century.

A master historian’s summing up of World War II.

Lady Jane Grey and her sisters.

An irreducible complexity.

The life of Friedrich Engels.

America and the revolutions of 1848.

No wall of separation.

A history of modern Italy.

Recovering a forgotten tradition.

The connection between political philosophy and presidential effectiveness.

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The twins who discovered an ancient Syriac version of the four gospels.

Randy Balmer's brief history of American evangelicalism.

Limiting family size in early America.

The "ends of life" in early modern England.

Modern Italy through one writer's complicated life.

A Jewish track star of the early 20th century.

Three fresh angles on religion in the American South.

From 1789 to 1815, in Gordon Wood's telling.

Three noteworthy titles from a big stack on the life of our greatest president.