History in Five

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of ALL OF THE SINGLE LADIES comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement.

In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic—but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women’s slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men.

Colin Harrison recommends THE SPY WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND, a true story of Cold War espionage and an outrageous cover-up.

Bestselling authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin share five essential facts about the winter encampment of 1777 where George Washington secured the fate of the American Revolution.

Marc Ambinder details the incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

INDIANAPOLIS by Lynn Vincent and documentary filmmaker Sara Vladic chronicles the sinking of the USS Indianapolis with many survivors discussing the tragedy for the first time.

Author Rinker Buck decided that the best way to write a history of the Oregon Trail was to ride it himself, covered wagon, mules, and all! THE OREGON TRAIL is one of our all-time favorite history books.

A NATION OF NATIONS by longtime NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten is perhaps the best book to explain the ongoing immigration debate, starting back in the 1960s with President John's landmark legislation up to the present day as the laws around legal immigration and naturalization are at the center of the national conversation.

Historian and journalist John Sedgwick, author of BLOOD MOON, discusses the history of the Cherokee Nation from the Trail of Trails to the Civil War, including the power struggle within the tribe's leadership that forever changed it.

One of our recent favorites, "ALL THE SINGLE LADIES" by prize-winning journalist Rebecca Traister, chronicles the lives of unmarried women who shaped politics, civil rights, and more throughout the 20th century.

"Absolutely awesome! So powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written – rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good." (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of SPYMASTER)