Owen Chase's memoir of the sinking of the Essex by a whale, which inspired Herman Melville's epic Moby-Dick and the 2015 Ron Howard film, In The Heart of the Sea.
The updated commemorative volume to the groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize–nominated collection from Boston Publishing, The American Experience in Vietnam combines the best serious historical writing about the Vietnam War with new, never-before-published photos
See the final days of the American Civil War as General Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the soul of the Confederacy.
This edition of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, the former slave’s 1845 memoir and treatise on the abolition of slavery includes pieces by antebellum writers and modern-day historians.
The American Navy learned hard lessons with the sinking of the Lexington in the Coral Sea. See how this marked a major turning point for the Allies forever.
