The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns tackles the quiet but dangerous problem so many of us carry – a comforting, half-remembered myth of … Read more
When we picture World War II spies, we imagine tuxedos and pistols, not catalog cards and microfilm cameras. Book and Dagger solves that problem by showing how badly we’ve underestimated … Read more
The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military monarchy and what social, military, and cultural forces made that … Read more
The History of Rome, Volume IV: The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen is a seminal work in historical scholarship, originally written in German and translated into English by William Purdie Dickson. … Read more
Rome didn’t just conquer; it standardized a continent. If you’ve ever wondered how one city turned agrarian inequality, foreign wars, and legal procedure into a machine that outlived its founders, … Read more
The grandeur of Ancient Rome is often seen through the lens of its imperial achievements. The History of Rome, Volume 2 unpacks this history with an unprecedented blend of thorough … Read more