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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History for kids: Roman EmpireThrough innovations in everything from military tactics to daily life to politics, ancient Rome undoubtedly belongs to that special club of civilizations that have left an irreversible mark on our world. Indeed, the legacy of Rome is so deeply engraved into the foundations of...
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Pagan Portals - The Norns: Weavers of Fate and MagickIn The Norns: Weavers of Fate and Magick, we meet the ones who weave, measure, and cut at the base of the World Tree. With Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld we travel across time and meet ourselves as part of fate. In this meeting, we...
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Vintage Journal Park Hotel, Hot SpringsThe Vintage Pocket Journal Park Hotel, Hot Springs features an illustration of the Park Hotel in Hot Springs, with some people on the roof. At the bottom, ""The Park; Hot Springs National Park; Arkansas"" is written. This journal has full color decorative vintage art...
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History of the French RevolutionThe Revolution, according to Jules Michelet (1798-1874), is the "tardy advent of Eternal Justice" against the tyranny of the monarchy. It is personified by the People, whose joy and misery Michelet evokes in every page of this "romantic history" of unprecedented social upheaval.Charles Cocks'...
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Destruction of Paradise: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Sack of the Summer PalaceThe first work of its kind in the English language, Destruction of Paradise describes one of the most dramatic and far-reaching events in East-West relations---the sack and burning of the Chinese Emperor's Summer Palace by an Anglo-French army in October 1860. The Summer Palace...
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From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent OrangeThe impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent...Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probably Agent Orange victims...Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about.More than four decades after the Vietnam War,...
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One Friday in Jerusalem: Walking to Calvary- a Tour, a Faith, a LifeThe Via Dolorosa--Latin for "Way of Grief," "Way of Sorrows," or "Painful Way"--is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the route that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. It is a distance of about six hundred meters...
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The Gun Club: U.S.S. Duncan at Cape EsperanceThe U.S. Navy's first planned battle of WWII is told through the extraordinary, little-known story of USS DUNCAN, the first Allied warship to penetrate a Japanese battle-line. From their first encounter with their celebrated captain and tyrannical executive officer to a deadly night afloat...
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The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed AmericaThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to Seneca Falls for history's first women's convention, to Rochester to meet and support abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, to witness the Fox Sisters summon...
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The Great Leopard HuntIn 1950 a wild leopard from India nearly escaped from his grotto in the Oklahoma City Zoo. The zoo placed him in one deeper. Still longing for freedom with heart-driven resolve, he did the impossible. Thus began his three-day reign of terror. Not only...
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Play Ball! The Story of Little League BaseballOn any given spring evening, 360,000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With more than four million people playing or volunteering in Little League games every year, Little League is the...
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Korean Americans: A Concise HistoryKorean Americans: A Concise History tells the untold stories of the pioneering immigrants, the newly discovered tale of the first Koreatown USA, and about the first Korean aviator. The textbook conveys the Korean American experience by highlighting important moments, people, and incidents that defines...
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Mysteries of the Sacred UniverseFrom the flat earth to the sun's chariot - traditional spiritual texts seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no...
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Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group SizesWho will you be? Romeo? Juliet? The nurse!? Romeo & Juliet like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-18] actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Romeo & Juliet...
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity"The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the Communists and end up with yourself." --Vladimir BukovskyBukovsky's Judgment in Moscow, called "stunning" by Richard Pipes...
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The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11"The leadership lessons learned in combat apply here at home: take care of the people to your left and to your right. You are the frontlines--no matter where or how you serve." It began as a personal memoir for her son. Reflecting one day...
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John Hughes, Eagle of the ChurchJohn Hughes was an Irish immigrant who played a significant role in the establishment of the Church in northeastern United States before the Civil War. As Bishop and then Archbishop of New York, he was the leader and protector of his people during the...
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Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year ChronicleA substantial chapter of World War II is resurrected in this sometimes tragic tale of one family's flight from their Latvian homeland and subsequent uncertainty as displaced persons. On the day Dagnija Neimane's parents married in 1940, the Soviet Russians killed the Latvian border...
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Offbeat New Mexico: Places of Unexpected History, Art, and Culture"Offbeat New Mexico" guides you through the people, places and events that have shaped the state often referred to as the "Land of Enchantment." The art and architecture that helped shape New Mexico may have started with petroglyphs, kivas and ancient cities but it's...
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Murders In Mendocino: True stories of the earliest families of Mendocino CountyThe serene countryside of central California hides a bloody history. Many Native tribes lived in peaceful coexistence before the discovery of gold changed everything. Dreamers and schemers converged on northern California from all over the world. Their greed for land led to government sanctioned...
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