Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Here Lies Hugh Glass
A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to...
Junipero Serra
California's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history
In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation's promise of radical individualism...
Panic at the Pump
The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought
In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour...
Diabetes and Me
An Essential Guide for Kids and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An upbeat, empathetic, and essential guide for young people with diabetes
In Diabetes and Me: An Essential Guide for Kids and Parents, Kim Chaloner, who has been teaching award-winning science classes for fifteen years, gives kids the tools they need to take charge of their health and understand...
by Yoram Bauman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
The internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics return to make calculus fun
The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with the world’s only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., to take on the daunting subject of calculus. A supplement...
Amazing Decisions
The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Dan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology.
The internationally...
by Landon Y. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal...
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
A fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainment
Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry...
A Massacre in Memphis
The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the...
by Robert A. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
1831
Year of Eclipse
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2002
1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter way, swayed the course of our nation. 1831 was one of them, and in this striking new work, Louis Masur...
The Yugo
The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy...
Front Porch Politics
The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
"Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice."—Ralph Nader
An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal
The 1960s are widely seen...