Of who gave the order for the midnight ride of Paul Revere. That would have been Dr. Joseph Warren. Just ask Nathaniel Philbrick, who brought to light this lesser-known patriot’s crucial role in the ...

In what PW called "a tale worthy of Ahab," this book describes the events of November 20, 1820, when a sperm whale took vengeance on the men who would slay it for oil. Adapted from the bestselling ...

The story of America’s founding is well known: Defiant citizen-soldiers threw a “tea party” in Boston, formed a well-timed coalition with the French, and defeated the mightiest army on Earth. It’s a ...

In “Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution,” (Viking, $30, 427 pages), Nathaniel Philbrick continues the saga of the American Revolution from his ...

“Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution” (Viking), by Nathaniel Philbrick In “Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate ...

What really happened the first Thanksgiving? Historian Nathaniel Philbrick said it all began with a religious sect that wanted to escape the power of the Church of England. One hundred and two ...

‘Argo’s Ben Affleck At Center Of Warner Bros Deal For Nathaniel Philbrick Book ‘Bunker Hill’ Resolution’s Rich Green brokered the movie deal for Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, and Pearl Street ...

Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his work of maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He has written ...

"Don't shoot 'til you see the whites of the enemies eyes." Those words, striking at the heart of the American Revolution, are also at the core of a new book from Nantucket-based historian Nathaniel ...

In "Valiant Ambition," Philbrick — winner of the National Book Award (for "In the Heart of the Sea") and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (for "Mayflower") — brings his immense talent to the American ...

For many young and impressionable readers in the 1960s, there was an incisive and hilarious book, Thomas Berger’s “Little Big Man,” that did more than any other to replace the outdated narrative of ...

It was a cold wintry day in Holliston when Nathaniel Philbrick climbed atop the lower edge of the Balancing Rock, a precariously perched “ancient, lichen-covered boulder” in Middlesex County.