History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic RescueNational Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has...
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Queen Victoria's Favourite Granddaughter: Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, the Most Consequential Royal You Never KnewIn the Fall of 1947, an eighty-four-year-old woman receives an extraordinary invitation. Though much that happened was a lifetime ago and in a different world, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, now the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, holds the heavy vellum envelop...
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Putin's Revenge: Why Russia Invaded UkraineIn February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe's largest land war since World War II? Lucian Kim--an on-the-ground reporter in the region for decades--offers a gripping,...
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Professing ClassicsAuthor: No ContributorPublisher: de GruyterPublished: 10/07/2024Pages: 340Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88dISBN: 9783111432793
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Private Property and the GoddessPrivate Property and the Goddess explores how patriarchal private property arose in ancient times when men seized the land from woman-centered cultures that grew up around the universal circle of women who nurtured humanity's children, giving rise to language and culture. Seizing the land...
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Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric AgeHow can Christians engage meaningfully with history?In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the "Ahistoric Age," in which...
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Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video GamesPlaying at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period...
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Planet Drag: Uncover the Global HerstoryTravel to Planet Drag and explore the styles, influences, artists, and events that have made the art of drag so outrageously popular in 15 countries around the world. Exquisitely styled by top drag artists, and with a foreword by Canada's Drag Race judge Brooke...
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Pioneering Participatory Art Practices: Tracing Actors, Associations and Interactions Across the Long SixtiesParticipatory art practices allow members of an audience to actively contribute to the creation of art. Annemarie Kok provides a detailed analysis and explanation of the use of participatory strategies in art in the so-called >long sixtiesAuthor: Annemarie KokPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublished: 08/27/2024Pages: 484Binding Type:...
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Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the EvidenceAtrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensely that any before. In the time since the images were taken they have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes....
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Paul and Seneca Among the Condemned: The Use of Spectacle in the Early EmpirePaul and Seneca Among the Condemned: The Use of Spectacle in the Early Empire relocates the comparison of these two figures from the philosopher's lecture hall to the amphitheaters of Rome and Corinth. The book explores the sites and images of spectacle that littered...
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Our Southern HighlandersAuthor: Horace KephartPublisher: Smokies LifePublished: 05/01/1913Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780937207765
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Our Country's Presidents: A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency, 2024 EditionRevised and updated to include the winner of the 2024 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely must-have reference. National Geographic presents the 45 individuals who have led the U.S. in this up-to-date, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated family, school, and library...
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Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the WestIn "Onward Muslim Soldiers," the author of "Islam Unveiled" reveals why the threat of violent jihad is growing daily, despite America's recent victory in Iraq. Spencer uncovers the cause of global violence as he goes straight to Muslim sourcesAuthor: Robert SpencerPublisher: Regnery PublishingPublished: 08/01/2003Pages:...
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Olmsted's Riverside: Stewardship Meets Innovation in a Landmark VillageThe challenge to preserve Chicagoland's unique haven Just outside the bustling metropolis of Chicago lies the unlikely green oasis of Riverside, Illinois, a small village that has continued to directly influence American landscapes and suburbs since the 1870s. Once farmland, the location provided a...
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Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week)"...a gripping first-hand account [of] front lines to besieged cities, from bombed-out basements to the homes and hospitality of the victims of war." -- Sunday PostWhen Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant.Millions of people were suddenly on the...
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Native American History Trivia: Test Your Knowledge with 200+ Questions and Answers about Indigenous Cultures, Influential Leaders, and Historical EveGet over 200 fun, informative, and unique trivia questions about Native Americans!Are you a trivia buff? Do you love to learn new things? Have you always wanted to know more about Native American culture?If so, then this is the book for you!You can match...
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NASA and the American SouthAn unprecedented examination of NASA's strong ties to the American South, exploring how the space program and the region have influenced each other over 60 years During the Cold War, federal funding for the space program transformed the southern United States as NASA built...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassDiscover Frederick Douglass's memoir and treatise on slavery with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon...
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Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk: The biography of the Father of the Turks and founder of Modern TurkeyExplore the life and legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk, the visionary leader who transformed Turkey into a modern, secular republic. As the founding father and first president of the Republic of Turkey, Atat?rk implemented sweeping reforms that reshaped the nation's political, economic, and cultural...
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