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Today is tomorrow
When Caroline and her husband begin working with civil war refugees in South Sudan and Kenya, they’ll discover the deep complexities of colonial interference abroad, the consequences of striving for perfection in an imperfect world, and above all—the extraordinary grace to be found in the unlikel...
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Tolstoy and tolstaya
Tolstoy and Tolstaya’s legacy is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Russian history and world literature, while their daily life has been recorded through their correspondence. This work presents the last 239 letters plus 11 hitherto unpublished letters between the spouses, pa...
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Twilight of the dons
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsi...
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Under swiss protection
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's wartime rescue efforts in Budapest based on interviews with Holocaust survivors and Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Lutz led an extensive rescue operation that issued more than 50,000 lifesaving letters of protection. This volume shines a light on the extraordinary...
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Up from slavery
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Washington rose from a slave child during the Civil War to worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments, becoming the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day.
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William still
The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the ...
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Worth fighting for
Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.
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Writing themselves into history
A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand.In the early years of California’s statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834–1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848–1910) had front-row seats to the unfolding of the Golden State’s h...
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Your friend forever, a. lincoln
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of one of the most important friendships in American history. Joshua Speed and Abraham Lincoln's relationship was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men. Their friendship resolves...
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