A new imprint publishing nonfiction American history for the semiquincentennial and the long American story it commemorates.
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First book in print · more arriving 2026
Read the first book
America at 250.
The eagle, the flag, the bell, the seal. What our most familiar symbols actually mean, where they came from, and why they still matter as the country marks its 250th birthday.
Buy on Amazon →America's 250th birthday calls for books that take the country seriously. That is what Aldridge is built for.
Patriotic in the original sense: love of country
paid in honest attention to it.
Our books cover the founding documents and the people who actually used them, frontier and migration, courts and schools and local government, regional stories, and the lives of ordinary Americans whose names never make it into the index.
We publish for general readers, for students, and for the teacher who slides a book across a desk and says, start here.
Five more titles in the works for 2026 and 2027. Subscribe below for publication dates as they are set.
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.