Hill and Wang
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948
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An Iron Cross recipient for service in WWI, Fawzi al-Qawuqji was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, and trained by the Ottomans in the early 1900...Read Review
Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
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John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that America’s Revolution “was in the minds of the people, and this was effected between 1760 to 1775, ...Read Review
The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America
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Most Americans know the story of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to his death by assassination in 1865. Some have ...Read Review
Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capital and the Coming of the Civil War
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Freedom’s Cap is a remarkable historical narrative about the building of the nation’s capitol with a simultaneous counterpoint to the tearing ...Read Review
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
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They called it the “Great Game,” the game played by imperialist nations competing for lucrative trade and commercial privileges in less developed nations. ...Read Review
The Boy: A Holocaust Story
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Of all the photos taken of the Holocaust, none was more haunting to historian Dan Porat than one taken by a Nazi photographer ...Read Review