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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Tiedtville and Santa Fe SpeedwayThe story of Santa Fe Speedway harkens back to the mid-1800s, when the first German settlers, with a true entrepreneurial spirit, created Tiedtville and Santa Fe Park. These establishments were the accomplishment of one of the first fAuthor: Christina AndinoPublisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)Published: 10/14/2024Pages:...
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Those Absent On the Great Hungarian Plain: Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biographies/Memoirs 2024A Hungarian village on the Great Plain: a microcosm reflecting this country's history from early tribal invasion to Soviet subordination to European Community membership. Here, peasants, herders, party girls, former Nazis and lapsed communists share gossip as well as love stories; and unscrupulous leaders,...
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Thomas Downing, New York's Oyster KingThomas Downing, the son of free slaves, rose from collecting oysters to running New York City's most elegant oyster restaurant. He became New York City's early 19th-century Oyster King and a prominent reformer. Honesty, hard work, and generosity earned him respect across the color...
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Thomas Aquinas' Trinitarian Theology"A model work in historical theology and philosophy, simultaneously showing a deep understanding of Thomas's medieval context and a sensitivity to contemporary theological issues. It should be read by anyone interested in Aquinas or Trinitarian doctrine, whether within a medieval or contemporary context." -...
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Thimble of Soil: A woman's Quest for LandFollow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Told through her letters, Thimble of Soil describes the prevalent...
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The Yosemite MurdersSince he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of...
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The Very Hungry Donner PartyBrrr! It's wintertime in the Sierra Madre mountains and the snowbound Donner Party is starting to get hungry. However will they feed their rumbly tummies? I wonder!Illustrated in the classic hand-painted paper collage style, this brutal parody of a children's classic is a historically...
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The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance LibrariesA uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance...
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The Story of Koenigsegg: Speed, Innovation, LegacyAuthor: Etienne PsailaPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 10/04/2024Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.16dISBN: 9781923355217
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The Spanish Civil War in the British and French Press: The Badajoz, Alc?zar of Toledo, Madrid, and Guernica News StoriesThis book examines coverage of the Spanish Civil War by the leading French and British newspapers, and agencies like Havas and Reuters. Their foundational reporting created a bedrock of 'shared news', which reverberated in places as geographically and ideologically remote as Moscow or Berlin.It...
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester PrynneAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America. On a cold winter day in 1832,...
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The Right Balance: Canada's Conservative TraditionIn a manner that reflects his long-time academic and practitioner's association with conservative politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the themes that unite its pre- and post-confederation reality with today's challenges and issues. The...
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The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical ApproachThe question of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection has been repeatedly probed, investigated and debated. And the results have varied widely. Perhaps some now regard this issue as the burned-over district of New Testament scholarship. Could there be any new and promising approach to...
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The Parent Teacher Association And Its WorkBuild stronger communities and better schools with The Parent-Teacher Association and Its Work, a practical resource for parents, teachers, and administrators who are looking to create more effective and engaged PTA organizations. With detailed guidance on everything from meeting procedures to fundraising best practices...
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The Order of the Holy Sepulchre: The History of the Catholic Order Established during the Crusades for the Promised Land*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the order *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." - Luke 19:27...
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Theorien Des Wohnens: Eine Kommentierte AnthologieThe anthology Theorien des Wohnens systematically collates the twentieth century's central theories of dwelling for the first time. The key philosophical and sociological texts presented here provide an overview of the various approaches to understanding dwelling as an anthropological reality, as a social practice,...
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The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman EmpireThe seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing--the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal...
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The Official CIA Interrogation & Manipulation Manual: The Cold War KUBARK FilesThis 108-page manual, classified Secret, was drafted in July 1963 as a comprehensive guide for training interrogators in the art of obtaining intelligence from "resistant sources." (As indicated above, two versions of the document - declassified 17 years apart - are presented in this...
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The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern AmericaThe incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman--who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the New York Times best-selling author of Sons of...
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The Mole of Vatican Council II: The True Story of Xavier RynneAuthor: Richard a. ZmudaPublisher: ACTA PublicationsPublished: 03/01/2024Pages: 307Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.80dISBN: 9780879467326
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