Books that argue back.

History, ideas, and fiction for readers who want to be challenged.

In ancient Sumer, the é-dub-ba was the tablet house, where scribes pressed meaning into clay so it would outlast them. We print the record in full. The reader does the thinking.

Clay cuneiform tablet with a multiplication table, Old Babylonian period.
Cuneiform tablet: multiplication table. Old Babylonian.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

What we stand for

  • We print the record in full.
  • We don't tell you what to think.
  • Fiction that takes the past seriously.

Our series

Primary Source Series

Faith and the Founding, Volumes I to IV

The complete founding-era record on religion and government, in the words of the people who wrote it. No commentary. No argument. Just the sources, built for reference.

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The Here War

A novel series

An epic of historical fiction that spans the breadth of human civilization, beginning in Sumer, 2800 BC, in the world's first city.

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Standalone titles

New work outside our series. Coming soon.


New releases