History
Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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A Sure Way: Following Truth in a World on FireA rising feminist thinker, Edith Stein examined everything in her relentless pursuit of truth. This ultimately led her to the foot of Jesus' cross and to taking the veil as a Carmelite nun. Though she renounced fame for a hidden life of prayer and...
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A Short History of the World in 50 TyrantsExplore the tyrants who have shaped the course of history. All power corrupts, but absolute power can turn people into absolute monsters. The true stories behind the men and women who led tyrannies around the world. This is history... but not as you know...
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Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western AfricaA stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and moreBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific--and...
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All the Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. Within days, the United States began to declare its war on terror: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," President George W. Bush...
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A History of Christian Thought in One VolumeIn this revised and updated version of his popular history, Justo González retains the essential elements of his earlier three volumes as he describes the central figures and debates leading to the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. Then he moves to Augustine and shows...
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Agency: The Psychological History of Human ProgressFrom the world's most influential psychologist and bestselling author of Flourish, a landmark work spanning ancient Greece to the age of AI that identifies agency--the fusion of efficacy, optimism, and imagination--as the hidden engine of human progress, and shows how we can unleash it...
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Adrift in the SouthWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a...
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46 Cartas Estoicas para Niños: Lecciones Sencillas para Desarrollar la Valentía, la Bondad, el Autocontrol y la Sabiduría46 Cartas Estoicas para Niños es una inspiradora colección de cartas que presenta a los niños de 6 a 12 años la sabiduría atemporal del estoicismo de una manera sencilla, cercana y fácil de comprender. A través de 46 cartas llenas de historias, reflexiones...
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33 Days: A Memoir"In June of 1940, Laeon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history. Encouraged to write 33 Days by his dear friend, Antoine de...
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Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in TranslationThe essential collection of source materials on the lives of women in the ancient world.Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social...
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Witches of New England: Stories about the Accused, the Trials, and the Fear That Swept the RegionRead 27 chilling, historically grounded stories about the real witch trials that terrorized New England in the 1600s.During a time already steeped in superstition, fear itself became the most dangerous force in New England. Ordinary people of the 17th century--friends, neighbors, fathers, mothers, and...
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Winslow Homer: Painter, EtcherThe first comprehensive exploration of Homer's etchings in the context of his paintings and as fully realized artworks in their own right American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is renowned for his masterful depictions of American life that offer sensitive portrayals of the complexity of...
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White. Blonde. Jew.: A Call to End Extremism, Speak Up, and Reclaim CenterThey used these words to shame her: White. Blonde. Jew. She turned them into the title of her book--and a movement. In an age of curated silence, false virtue, and weaponized identity, Alyssa Rosenheck refused to shrink. White. Blonde. Jew. is a brave cultural...
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What Was the Trail of Tears?Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830. From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their homelands because the white settlers believed this land belonged...
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What Was the Trail of Tears?Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830. From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their homelands because the white settlers believed this land belonged...
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What Do We Know about the Giant's Causeway?The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Was the Giant's Causeway really built by giants? Learn all about the mystery surrounding one of the United Kingdom's greatest natural wonders. The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular geological...
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What Do We Know about the Giant's Causeway?The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Was the Giant's Causeway really built by giants? Learn all about the mystery surrounding one of the United Kingdom's greatest natural wonders. The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular geological...
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We, the People: Insights of an Activist JudgeA stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider's view of South Africa's Constitution. This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25...
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people...
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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the...
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