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- "We only come here to struggle" : stories from Berida's life
- A Companion to José Enrique Rodó / Gustavo San Roman
- A gallery to play to : the story of the Mersey Poets
- A generation of revolutionaries : Nikolai Charushin and Russian populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
- A living man from Africa : Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa
- A mouth sweeter than salt : an African memoir
- A portrait of Richard Graves
- A red family : Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales
- Abraham Lincoln, Esq. : the legal career of America's greatest president
- Adam Mickiewicz : the life of a romantic
- Against the tide : one woman's political struggle
- Alben Barkley : a life in politics
- Ambrose of Milan : church and court in a Christian capital
- America's first black socialist : the radical life of Peter H. Clark
- American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization
- American showman : Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935
- Amiable scoundrel : Simon Cameron, Lincoln's scandalous Secretary of War
- An unfinished republic : leading by word and deed in modern China
- An unlikely revolutionary : Matsuo Takabuki and the making of modern Hawai'i : a memoir
- Anarchist portraits
- Anne Boleyn : fatal attractions
- Apocalypse in Rome : Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age
- Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett
- Asian American X : an intersection of twenty-first-century Asian American voices
- Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa
- Auden and Christianity
- Auschwitz and after
- Barbara La Marr : the girl who was too beautiful for Hollywood
- Baroness of Hobcaw : the life of Belle W. Baruch
- Belvidere : a plantation memory
- Benjamin Franklin and the politics of improvement
- Benjamin V. Cohen : architect of the New Deal
- Beria : Stalin's First Lieutenant
- Berlin Psychoanalytic : psychoanalysis and culture in Weimar Republic Germany and beyond
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Bill Monroe : the life and music of the Blue Grass man
- Bishop von Galen : German Catholicism and National Socialism
- Black officer in a Buffalo Soldier regiment : the military career of Charles Young
- Blackbird's song : Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa people
- Blessed experiences : genuinely Southern, proudly Black
- Bob Crow: socialist, leader, fighter : a political biography
- Bound to the fire : how Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine
- Braxton Bragg : the most hated man of the Confederacy
- Bruno Walter : a world elsewhere
- Bucharest Diary : Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light
- Building a new Jerusalem : John Davenport, a Puritan in three worlds
- CBS's Don Hollenbeck : an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism
- Cancer crossings : a brother, his doctors, and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia
- Chairman of the Fed : William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the creation of the modern American financial system
- Chaplin and American culture : the evolution of a star image
- Children of Cambodia's killing fields : memoirs by survivors
- Citizen of Zimbabwe : conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai
- Cleopatra : a Sphinx revisited
- Coastal sage : Peter Douglas and the fight to save California's shore
- Crossing the barriers : the autobiography of Allan H. Spear
- Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England
- Daughter of the Empire State : the life of Judge Jane Bolin
- Dharma lion : a biography of Allen Ginsberg
- Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker : the miracle of our continuance
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- E.J. Pratt on his life and poetry
- Edwin Arlington Robinson : a poet's life
- Eleftherios Venizelos : the trials of statesmanship
- Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement : the Biography of an Insurgent Woman
- Emerson's life in science : the culture of truth
- Emily Dickinson in love : the case for Otis Lord
- Emily Greene Balch : the long road to internationalism
- Empire & revolution : the political life of Edmund Burke
- Encounters with Kierkegaard : a life as seen by his contemporaries
- Engineering communism : how two Americans spied for Stalin and founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
- Enterprising Minnesotans : 150 years of business pioneers
- Entrepreneurial president : Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003
- Erik Satie : a Parisian composer and his world
- Ernest Newman : a critical biography
- Ernst Kantorowicz
- Evangelical disenchantment : nine portraits of faith and doubt
- Exile : A Memoir of 1939
- Exposing the Third Reich : Colonel Truman Smith in Hitler's Germany
- Fame, money, and power : the rise of Peisistratos and "democratic" tyranny at Athens
- Fats Waller
- Feminism as life's work : four modern American women through two world wars
- Figures of Buddhist modernity in Asia
- Fine & dandy : the life and work of Kay Swift
- Florynce "Flo" Kennedy : the life of a black feminist radical
- Form as revolt : Carl Einstein and the ground of modern art
- Fred Astaire
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- From New York to Nebo : the artistic journey of Eugene Thomason
- From war to peace in 1945 Germany : a GI's experience
- Gandhi's interpreter : a life of Horace Alexander
- Garibaldi : invention of a hero
- George Heriot : postmaster-painter of the Canadas
- George Keats of Kentucky : a life
- George Sand
- George Smart and nineteenth-century London concert life
- George Szell's reign : behind the scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra
- Georgialina : a southland as we knew it
- Germaine de Staël : a political portrait
- Gertrude Weil : jewish progressive in the New South
- Gilles Deleuze : vitalism and multiplicity
- Gladstone centenary essays
- Global entanglements of a man who never traveled : a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds
- Greatness in the shadows : Larry Doby and the integration of the American League
- Grenfell of Labrador : a biography
- Gruesome deaths and celibate lives : Christian martyrs and ascetics
- Gustav Mahler
- Hannah Arendt : for love of the world
- Harold Stassen : Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament
- Harry Somers
- Harry T. Burleigh : from the spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
- Henry D. Thoreau
- Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology : birds, book and business
- Henry Thoreau : a life of the mind
- Henry VI
- Henry W. Blair's campaign to reform America : from the Civil War to the U.S. Senate
- Herbert Butterfield : historian as dissenter
- Hey, waitress! : the USA from the other side of the tray
- Hidden in the shadow of the master : the model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Hitler's hangman : the life of Heydrich
- Hitler's plans for global domination : Nazi architecture and ultimate war aims
- Honky
- Humor of a country lawyer
- I Respectfully Dissent : a Biography of Edward H. Nakamura
- Ibn Khaldun : life and times
- Imperial San Francisco : urban power, earthly ruin : with a new preface
- In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
- In the Godfather Garden : the Long Life and Times of Richie ""The Boot"" Boiardo
- Investing for generations : a history of Alliance Trust
- Invisible giants : the empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers
- Isaac and isaiah : the covert punishment of a cold war heretic
- Jacques Maritain : an intellectual profile
- James Fenimore Cooper : the early years
- James J. Kilpatrick : salesman for segregation
- Jarmila Novotná : my life in song
- Jerome Robbins : a life in dance
- Jerry Herman : poet of the showtune
- John A. Burns : the man and his times
- John A. MacDonald : the Young Politician, The Old Chieftain
- John Sherman Cooper : the global Kentuckian
- John Tyler, the Accidental President
- John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513) : 'the foremost man of the kingdom'
- Johnson and Boswell : a biography of friendship
- Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842 : jurist : scholar : inspirer of the arts : author of Hail Columbia
- Julius Caesar
- Karl Jaspers : a biography : navigations in truth
- Karl Polanyi : a life on the left
- Katherine Mansfield : the early years
- Kentucky lawyer
- Knowledge and Power in Morocco : The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable
- Lady in the dark : Iris Barry and the art of film
- Leo Smith : a biographical sketch
- Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia
- Liszt's final decade
- Living in romantic Baghdad : an American memoir of teaching and travel in Iraq, 1924-1947
- Livingstone's 'lives' : a metabiography of a Victorian icon
- Looking for Betty MacDonald : the egg, the plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- Losing Tim : how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia
- Lost legacy : the Mormon office of Presiding Patriarch
- Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman : two kings of jazz
- Louis Austin and the Carolina times : a life in the long black freedom struggle
- Loyal to the land : the legendary Parker Ranch, Volume 2, 1950-1970 : the senior stewards
- Lucretia Mott's heresy : abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America
- Léon Harmel : entrepreneur as Catholic social reformer
- Made in Newark : Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new South
- Madonna, bawdy & soul
- Making stars physical : the astronomy of Sir John Herschel
- Malcolm X's Michigan worldview : an exemplar for contemporary black studies
- Manchu princess, Japanese spy : the story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the cross-dressing spy who commanded her own army
- Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea
- Marie d'Agoult : the rebel countess
- Marquess of Queensberry : Wilde's nemesis
- Mary P. Follett : creating democracy, transforming management
- Matthew J. Perry : the man, his times, and his legacy
- Maurice Duruflé : the man and his music
- Memoir of a Gulag actress
- Michael Curtiz : a life in film
- Miles Lord : the maverick judge who brought corporate America to justice
- Miyazakiworld : a life in art
- Monstrous adversary : the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- Mr. Democrat : Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the making of modern American politics
- Music and Sexuality in Britten : Selected Essays
- Music makes me : Fred Astaire and jazz
- Nelson : love & fame
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikkei Baseball : Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues
- Nine choices : Johnny Cash and American culture
- Norman Mailer
- O.D. Skelton : a portrait of Canadian ambition
- Octavia E. Butler
- Old Brick, Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
- On Empson
- On the trail of the yellow tiger : war, trauma, and social dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing transition
- One Nation Under Baseball : How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
- One woman in a hundred : Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Palmetto Profiles : the South Carolina encyclopedia guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame
- Passion, betrayal, and revolution in colonial Saigon : the memoirs of Bao Luong
- Patrick N. Lynch, 1817-1882 : third Catholic bishop of Charleston
- Paul, the pagans' apostle
- Peggy Seeger : a life of music, love, and politics
- Philo of Alexandria : an intellectual biography
- Phoning home : essays
- Picturing the barrio : ten Chicano photographers
- Power to the poor : black-brown coalition and the fight for economic justice, 1960-1974
- Præterita
- Pulling strings : the legacy of Melville A. Clark
- Q. Aurelius Symmachus : a political biography
- Queens and mistresses of Renaissance France
- Queenship and sanctity : the lives of Mathilda and the epitaph of Adelheid
- Queer Maghrebi French : language, temporalities, transfiliations
- Reconstructing Karl Polanyi : excavation and critique
- Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance librarian
- Richard II
- Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats : unfinished business
- Richter's scale : measure of an earthquake, measure of a man
- Rites of passage : a memoir of the sixties in Seattle
- Roads not taken : an intellectual biography of William C. Bullitt
- Robert Livingston, 1654-1728, and the politics of colonial New York
- Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots
- Robert the Bruce : King of the Scots
- Roger Sherman : signer and statesman
- Ronald Reagan : an intellectual biography
- Rufus King : American federalist
- Ruling peacefully : Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and patrician reform in sixteenth-century Italy
- Russell Kirk : American conservative
- Sacco and Vanzetti : the anarchist background
- Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity
- Saint Genet : actor and martyr
- Samir Amin : intellectuel organique au service de l'emancipation du Sud
- Samothracian Connections : Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie
- Samurai among panthers : Richard Aoki on race, resistance, and a paradoxical life
- Saturday's child : memoirs of Canada's first female cabinet minister
- Seán MacBride : a Republican life, 1904-1946
- Short of the glory : the fall and redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr
- Sidelined : how American sports challenged the Black freedom struggle
- Singing for freedom : the Hutchinson Family Singers and the nineteenth-century culture of reform
- Sissieretta Jones : "the greatest singer of her race," 1868-1933
- Slave captain : the career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade
- Slum Travelers : Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920
- Son of the cypresses : memories, reflections, and regrets from a political life
- Song of my life : a memoir
- South Carolina at the brink : Robert McNair and the politics of civil rights
- Spiritual radical : Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
- Spirituality, gender, and the self in Renaissance Italy : Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540)
- Standing up to colonial power : the lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
- Steadfast in the faith : the life of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle
- Strategies for survival : recollections of bondage in Antebellum Virginia
- Stravinsky inside out
- Striking distance : Bruce Lee & the dawn of martial arts in America
- Sword of Zen : Master Takuan and his writings on immovable wisdom and the sword Taie
- Sōseki : modern Japan's greatest novelist
- Telling young lives : portraits in global youth
- The Beecher sisters
- The Centralia Tragedy of 1919 : Elmer Smith and the Wobblies
- The Collector : the Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
- The Cyril Scott companion : unity in diversity
- The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image
- The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
- The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 : prints, pamphlets, and politics in the Dutch golden age
- The Mentelles : Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the immigrant family that educated Antebellum Kentucky
- The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping
- The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The Somali diaspora : a journey away
- The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh
- The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004
- The black circle : a life of Alexandre Kojève
- The book of pontiffs of the church of Ravenna
- The burdens of Sister Margaret : inside a seventeenth-century convent
- The cathedral 'open and free' : Dean Bennett of Chester
- The city as subject : Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka
- The conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg : from isolation to international engagement
- The cosmic web : mysterious architecture of the universe
- The cosmonaut who couldn't stop smiling : the life and legend of Yuri Gagarin
- The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
- The dance claimed me : a biography of Pearl Primus
- The dog shogun : the personality and policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
- The education of John Dewey : a biography
- The emperor's clothes : a personal viewpoint on politics and administration in the imperial Ethiopian government, 1941-1974
- The enigma of Max Gluckman : the ethnographic life of a "luckyman" in Africa
- The fate of the corps : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition
- The final victim of the blacklist : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten
- The first modern Japanese : the life of Ishikawa Takuboku
- The genius : Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism
- The great justices, 1941-54 : Black, Douglas, Frankfurter & Jackson in chambers
- The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty
- The imagined underworld : sex, crime, and vice in porfirian Mexico City
- The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906
- The life and poems of Anne Hunter : Haydn's tuneful voice
- The life and times of General Andrew Pickens : Revolutionary War hero, American founder
- The life of Walatta-Petros : a seventeenth-century biography of an African Woman
- The lives of Scottish women : women and Scottish society, 1800-1980
- The long journey of Gracia Mendes
- The longest shot : Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky Derby
- The magnificent Mays : a biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
- The making of John Ledyard : empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler
- The making of Martin Luther
- The many captivities of Esther Wheelwright
- The music of the Stanley Brothers
- The path of mercy : the life of Catherine McAuley
- The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time
- The poet Shen Yüeh (441-513) : the reticent marquis
- The political trajectory of J.T. Murphy
- The presidency of Barack Obama : a first historical assessment
- The rise of a prairie statesman : the life and times of George McGovern
- The road to Seneca Falls : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
- The sage of Sugar Hill : George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance
- The selected papers of Jane Addams, Volume 2, Venturing into usefulness, 1881-88
- The sugar hacienda of the Marqueses del Valle
- The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr
- The third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith : estate management and improvement in Enlightenment Scotland
- The three Graces of Val-Kill : Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the place they made their own
- The untold journey : the life of Diana Trilling
- The vegetarian crusade : the rise of an American reform movement, 1817-1921
- The war came home with him : a daughter's memoir
- The war comes to Plum Street
- The watchful clothier : the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist
- The well-travelled musician : John Sigismond Cousser and musical exchange in Baroque Europe
- Thomas Jefferson : reputation and legacy
- Thomas Nast : the father of modern political cartoons
- Thoreau and the language of trees
- To live as long as heaven and earth : a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents
- To plead our own cause : personal stories by today's slaves
- Tocqueville and his America : a darker horizon
- Transatlantic German studies : testimonies to the profession
- Ukrainian Bishop, American Church
- Verlaine, a study in parallels
- Virginia Woolf : a portrait
- Voices of the Arab Spring : personal stories from the Arab revolutions
- Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity
- War, genocide, and justice : Cambodian American memory work
- We fought the Navy and won : Guam's quest for democracy : a personal memoir
- When London was capital of America
- Where the salmon run : the life and legacy of Billy Frank Jr
- Who was Jacques Derrida? : an intellectual biography
- Wilhelm Furtwängler : art and the politics of the unpolitical
- William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker
- William Beckford : first prime minister of the London empire
- William James : a biography
- William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory
- William Plumer of New Hampshire, 1759-1850
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. : a holy impatience
- Without precedent : the life of Susie Marshall Sharp
- Women who made a difference
- Women, peace and welfare : a suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920
- Woodrow Wilson : Princeton to the presidency
- Yakuglas' legacy : the art and times of Charlie James
- Yearning to breathe free : Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his families
- Éric Rohmer : a biography
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