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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
By Sophie Pinkham
How the country’s relationship to its trees shaped its place in the world.
Righteous Strife
By Richard Carwardine
Was Abe’s spiritual transformation an honest one?
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
By Howard Bryant
More than anything, the Cold War was a chess match.
The First and Last King of Haiti
By Marlene L. Daut
This revelatory work restores a lost figure to the pantheon of pivotal world leaders.
Perhaps Russia’s future, if not its present, will be female.
The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present
By Gregory Smits
A comprehensive reassessment of the pivotal Pacific chain.
Are we hurtling toward an inevitable cliff?
Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing
By April F. Masten
A pre-Civil War sporting event comes vividly to life.
