History in Five

"The Crafts challenged our nation, then, as they do now, to see that we are one nation, for better or worse." Learn more about the Crafts in our conversation with Ilyon Woo about her new book, Master Slave Husband Wife, available 01/17: spr.ly/6012Mogqy

Happy publication day to American Rascal! Learn more about Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th century robber barons.

How can we let go of our pasts, as individuals and as countries? In The Inheritors, @evefairbanks answers this question through the lives of three ordinary South Africans.

"South Africa has siblings, so to speak, all over the world...countries living on the presumption that a group in power can never share it lest they be subject to terrible vengeance." Read our Q&A with @evefairbanks, author of The Inheritors: spr.ly/6013zgx49

In 1888, Louis Le Prince successfully created the first motion picture. Two years later, he disappeared. Paul Fischer (@tencents77) explores Le Prince's life and contributions in The Man Who Invented #MotionPictures, available April 19.

Salmon P. Chase wasn’t just Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury—here are five things you didn't know about this key figure in American politics. Learn more in @wbstahr's biography of Salmon Chase: spr.ly/6019KT28H

On the night he died, 8 articles were discovered inside a compartment in Abraham Lincoln's wallet. @JohnAvlon explains how these treasured clippings speak to Lincoln's state of mind at the end of the war. Lincoln and the Fight for Peace is available now!

Lincoln's example in the final days of the Civil War offers a portrait of a peacemaker. @JohnAvlon shares the lessons we can learn from his fight for peace. Learn more about Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, available February 15: spr.ly/6010KyMgi

Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. @BenHRaines discusses the ship's legacy and the impact it continues to have.

"[T]he 1950s uniquely present the model of how change actually begins--in the private lives of people most desperate for it." Read more from our Q&A with James Gaines, author of The Fifties: spr.ly/6013Jv9sS