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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Voices From the Attic: The Williamstown Boys in the Civil WarImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Faced with that situation, and not knowing why his family had the letters, the author uses the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources to discover how two Vermont...
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Ancient Egyptian Symbols: 50 New Discoveries: Abridged editionThis book identifies, for the first time since antiquity, the sources and meanings of more than 50 ancient Egyptian symbols, including the Eye of Horus, evil god Seth and his strange head, 10 major crowns, and the symbolic foundations of Osirian mythology, backbone of...
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Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder, and Deceit in Ancient Rome208 BC. Hannibal, the fearsome champion of Carthage, has been marauding throughout Roman territory behind his trained war elephants for years. Publius Cornelius Scipio, a young Roman general burning to avenge his father's death in battle, takes up the fight against Hannibal's brother, Hasdrubal,...
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Long Live Glosser's: Deluxe Hardcover EditionThe Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania has reopened, just for you, in the pages of this one-of-a-kind nonfiction book. For the first time, the whole true story of Glosser's has been told, on the 25th anniversary of the fabled department store's closing....
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The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic CommunitiesWinner of the Inaugural Mohn Prize (2017)Winner of the William Mills Prize for nonfiction Polar Books (2014) The Meaning of Ice celebrates Arctic sea ice as it is seen and experienced by the Inuit, Iupiat, and Inughuit, who for generations have lived with it...
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The Last Corpsman: The Story of John I. Unger, Chief Hospital Corpsman, U.S. Navy, and Former World War II Prisoner of War in the PacificThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, his training as a Corpsman and his subsequent assignment with the Marine 1st Defense Battalion on Wake Island. His...
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American Boys: The True Story of the Lost 74 of the Vietnam WarIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her size, sending her forward half to the bottom of the South China Sea and into...
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The Small Regiment: Volume 1 Origins of the Clan MacKinnon 100 BCE-1621 CEThe first book of a multi-volume history of the Clan MacKinnon. The Small Regiment, volume 1, The Origins of the Clan MacKinnon, is a new well researched history of the MacKinnon Clan to the year 1621. The book is a well illustrated 398 page...
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Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet Era Postcards from the Eastern BlocBrutalist hotels, avant-garde monuments and futurist TV towers: rare and previously unpublished vintage postcards from the Eastern BlocBrutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workers--this collection of Soviet-era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments....
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Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag MonumentsAccompanying the most important UK exhibition of Joseph Beuys' (1921-86) work in over a decade, this comprehensive publication traces the development of the artist's practice from his early, rarely seen works to his conceptual environments. At the heart of this exhibition stands Stag Monuments,...
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The Kronstadt UprisingOn the eve of the 100th anniversary of the 'October Revolution', where the Bolsheviks seized control of a popular uprising, there can still be found those who celebrate the events as a victory of 'workers control'. Ida Mett's account was among the first to...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Out of Australia TheoryIt has often been said that humanity's history is a fabrication, littered with lies and omissions, but this has never been conclusively proven, until now. What has been recently found in Australia is unequivocal in rewriting convenient versions of ancient history and the genesis...
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Commodore: The Amiga YearsContinuing the story of Commodore where the previous book, Commodore: A Company on the Edge left off, this book takes a look at Commodore's most tumultuous years. How did the Amiga, a computer now widely regarded as having been five years ahead of its...
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Mysteries of Canada: Volume IAn assortment of real Canadian mysteries published on MysteriesOfCanada.com throughout the year 2018. Includes tales of clairvoyance, ghosts, poltergeists, lost treasure, superstitions, haunted hotels, and monsters.Author: Hammerson PetersPublisher: ISBN CanadaPublished: 02/13/2019Pages: 362Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.81dISBN: 9780993955877This title is not...
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In the Footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab: The Events of 1880-1881The story of Abraham Ulrikab is one of the saddest and most moving stories in Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Inuit and Canadian history. Hoping to improve his family's living conditions, in August 1880, Abraham agreed to head to Europe to become the latest "exotic" attraction in...
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Gerhard Richter: NovemberNovember presents German artist Gerhard Richter's series of the same name--comprised of 54 ink drawings--so called due to their creation throughout the month of November in 2008. Richter assumed this method after accidentally dripping ink on to a sheet of highly absorbent paper and...
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Schloss: The Fascinating Royal History of 25 German CastlesNEW EDITION WITH IMPROVED LAYOUT AND MORE ILLUSTRATIONS. Schloss is the German word for castle or palace. This book is the first of five by Susan Symons about the fascinating royal history of German castles. It visits 25 beautiful schl sser (the plural of...
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The White Spot CookbookProduced in celebration of White Spot's 85th anniversary, The White Spot Cookbook is an engaging, visually rich collection of recipes, memories, and memorabilia, designed to showcase the legacy of one of British Columbia's most enduring brands. This book conveys the spirit of the legendary...
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Pinkerton's First Lady - Kate Warne: United States First Female DetectiveIn this HISTORICAL-FICTION, Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, hired by Allen Pinkerton in 1856. Kate did not flaunt her beliefs of women rights; however she went about it the right way by speaking about and visualizing how women...
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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Volume IIIn this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of "collecting all authority into one center." Delving into the Italian republics of the middle...
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