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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The Civil War in Maury County, TennesseeMaury County was a crossroads during the Civil War. Due to its size and strategic place on the map, the county changed hands between the Union and Confederate forces six times during the Civil War. This book chronicles Maury County's participation in the war....
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Hadrian and Antinous - Their lives and TimesThe moving story of Hadrian and Antinous has spanned the ages not only as the bond of two men's love, but equally as an eternal mystery as to why a youth forfeited his life to perpetuate that of his lover. The book is an...
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Powered by SteamBelieve it or not, water can be used to power boat and train engines. In fact, water in the form of steam changed the manufacturing and transportation industries thanks to steam power pioneers like Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt, and Richard Trevithick. Explore...
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You Are There! Ancient Egypt 1336 BCExplore what life was life in ancient Egypt under the reign of Tutankhamun! Students will be whisked away to the past with this informational text that breathes life into history and examines the hieroglyphics, religion, politics, style, and lives of ancient Egyptians. Developed by...
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On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project GeminiGemini was the intermediate manned space flight program between America's first steps into space with Mercury and the amazing and unprecedented accomplishments achieved during the manned lunar expeditions of Apollo. Because of its position between these two other efforts, Gemini is probably less remembered....
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The Pony Express: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Mail Service*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Explains the route of the Pony Express and accounts from Pony Express riders. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading. "I, name], do hereby swear, before the Great and Living God, that during my engagement,...
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#Berlin45: The Final Days of the Third Reich"What if.........there had been Social Media during World War II?"The compelling story of the final 20 days of Hitler's Third Reich told in the form of Twitter feeds with daily tweets and actual statements by Hitler, Churchill, Truman, Stalin, Zhukov, Eisenhower, Goebbels, Bormann, Weidling,...
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Tiny New York: The Smallest Things in the Biggest CityBecause in a giant city, sometimes the smallest things get overlooked Meet the tiniest standouts in the Big Apple, from a baby dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History to a dinky basketball court in the Village that has produced some of the sport's...
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Haunted U.S. Battlefields: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of HonorDo places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great...
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Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was...
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The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His TimesIn early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio, a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets to...
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Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains: A Red-Light History of Montana, Idaho, and WyomingWhile settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain region. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or...
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Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the MoviesThe year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blach , and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blach , the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment...
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Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser PresidentsForeword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in Biography "The Funniest. Presidential. Biographer. Ever." --Kai Bird, Pulitzer-prize winning historian Now in paperback, W.P.E. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening--and highly entertaining --account of poor James Buchanan's presidency. This...
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Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History in and Around Washington, D.C.A story most Americans don't know. *Slaves built the Capitol, White House, and other important Washington structures *The National Mall sits on the site of the city's once-bustling slave market *The grounds that are now Arlington National Cemetery were once a self-sustaining village for...
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The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever ToldIn thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II....
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It Happened in the Old West: Remarkable Events that Shaped HistoryThese are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The Last...
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Historic Redwood National and State Parks: The Stories Behind One of America's Great TreasuresIf redwood trees could share their stories, what would they say? Some of these giants are thousands of years old, but all have witnessed some truly unique moments in history. Historic Redwood National and State Parks is a vibrant collection of essays sharing different...
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North Carolina Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's MysteriesNorth Carolina Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general...
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New Mexico Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History's Mysteries, 2nd EditionPart of our new and growing Myths, Mysteries and Legends series, Myths, Mysteries and Legends of New Mexico explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the Land of Enchantment's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the...
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