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On the morning of September 2, 1798, just after first light, the back door to Carpenters' Hall is discovered ajar.

Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L. J. Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus, and many more.

An "obsessive, mystical, terrifying" exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (*New Yorker*).

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America.

"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony." - Kirkus Reviews. The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions.

A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes.

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life the vibrant—and violent—society of fifteenth-century Florence.

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ.

"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent." —Liz Smith. She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the "Next Detroit"—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century.

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Former NASCAR president, chairman, and CEO William Clifton France—known to most people as Bill France Jr.—is remembered and revered as the man who followed his visionary father at the helm of NASCA

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease.

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921.