Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

Of Plymouth Plantation

The Devils of Loudun: A True Story of Demonic Possession

A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890

The British Empire

Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza, 1648–1715

The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650