The onetime “hidden figure” recounts her extraordinary path from the Jim Crow South to the halls of NASA.

An excellent treatment of her powerful and underappreciated role in American history from 1963-1969.

How Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright and Frances Seward challenged a nation’s conscience.

Originally published in 1935, it grew out of stories that Brink heard from her grandmother about growing up in a...

The man who did so much for the antislavery cause was once regarded as a dangerous zealot. No more.

A complex consideration of the cigarette phenomenon in the twentieth century.

Along with its overall historical accuracy and the believability of its characters, that refusal to delude readers with false resolutions...

In this new collection, the famed essayist demonstrates her longstanding mastery of the form.

A reappraisal of one of America's First Lady's, Mrs. Bush was the wife of one president, and mother of another.

Hein tailors a family history that is fiction and fact.

A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary...

There may be no more difficult, or intriguing, subject for a political biography than Richard Nixon.