A new imprint publishing nonfiction American history for the semiquincentennial and the long American story it commemorates.
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First titles arriving 2026
See the first listAmerica's 250th birthday deserves more than commemorative mugs and bunting. It deserves books that take the country seriously, written by people who have done the reading. That is the job we have set for ourselves, and the standard against which every Aldridge title will be measured.
Patriotic in the original sense, that is, love of country expressed through honest attention to it.
Our list focuses on American history broadly understood: the founding documents and the people who actually used them, frontier and migration, the civic institutions that hold the country together, regional and local stories, and the lives of ordinary Americans whose names usually do not make it into the index.
We publish for general readers, students, and the kind of teacher who hands you a book and says, start with this one.
Six titles in the works for 2026 and 2027. Subscribe to the announce list for publication dates as they are set.
What the eagle, the flag, the bell, the seal, and a half-dozen other emblems actually mean, and how they got that way.
The Workers, Dreamers, and Outsiders Who Made This Country.
The 8 Days That Could Have Changed America Forever.
The Ideas That Built America and the Price We Still Pay.
Conversation Starters for Every Age, from Toddlers to Teens.
Women Who Changed the Country and Rarely Got a Textbook Page.
Aldridge Americana is a small press in its first season. Submissions are not yet open, but introductions, press inquiries, and partnerships with historical societies, museums, and schools are very much welcome.