Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...

O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,

This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

The Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued many scholars of early modern Europe...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...

As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...

Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...

Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...

This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

Parker draws upon an enormous array of documentation to provide readers with a better understanding of Charles and the many challenges he faced over the course of his decades-long reign...

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...

For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...

The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...

Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Lucchesi presents the largely unknown story of the US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II...