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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The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of HopeWhen we picture the first Advent, we see Mary and Joseph huddled by a manger. We picture Gabriel, magi, and shepherds tending their flocks. A shining star against a midnight sky. But this harmonized version has lifted the Advent story out of its context--those...
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Philadelphia: A Walk Through HistoryAuthor: Natalie PompilioPublisher: Reedy PressPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.20dISBN: 9781681066103About the AuthorAward-winning journalist Natalie Pompilio has lived and written in Philadelphia for more than 20 years. After staff positions at newspapers including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia...
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The Soul Trap: Aliens, Ancient Scrolls, and ReincarnationVery few have the time or courage to attempt to bring multiple realities together while also redefining history. Joe Lewels has spent a lifetime doing just that, beginning with The God Hypothesis (2005), and continuing with Rulers of the Earth (2013). Now The Soul...
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Inventing Human Rights: A HistoryHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture...
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That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to GloryThe story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi's first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn't fielded...
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From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land: Stories of a Tennessee Reconstruction CommunityThe Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been enslaved at the Cumberland Iron Furnace. These early settlers, who included United States Colored Troops veterans, were able to purchase land and...
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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell HappenedOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States...
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of an undeclared war on September 11, 2001. In this gripping minute-to-minute narrative, based on an astonishing feat of reporting,...
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Baby Doe Tabor: Madwoman in the CabinThe story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado's...
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The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and ProsperityNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery."--The American Prospect In this forceful...
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Small-Town Chaos: Lessons on Country LifeIn Liberty, moments of grit, perseverance, heartbreak, and joy illustrate the fullness of living a small-town life.A staunch urbanite, Lenore Focht never thought she'd end up in a remote farming community of 450 people. But when she gets a teaching job that could pave...
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American Art Since 1945David Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transformations rooted in mass media technologies--photography, television, video, and the Internet--elevated consumer commodities to the status of legitimate...
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God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star StateNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower--and a Texas native--takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. - "Beautifully written.... Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed...
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1611 KJV with Apocrypha, Black Leathersoft: Holy BibleEmbrace the majestic style and rich cadence of the first printing of the 1611 King James Version Bible.In this remastered edition of the original from 1611, you'll find the signature elements from the original, including the word-for-word text of the first Authorized Version, elegant...
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldWith extraordinary paintings and a moving narrative, award-winning author illustrator Lynn Curlee tells the story of some of humankind's greatest feats and explores a timeless desire of countless civilizations: to leave a permanent mark on the Earth--now with a new look! The Hanging Gardens...
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Factology: Vikings: Open Up a World of Information!Factology: Vikings is a fact-packed introduction to the Age of the Vikings, including their culture, mythology, battle tactics and lasting impact on the history of Europe.Did you know that the Vikings weren't just one people? The pillaging pirates who raided Europe's coasts came from...
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent...
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Gallic WarThe conquest that begot the Roman Empire. Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition...
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Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings"Unearthing the ancient world's anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended" - Alan Moore, writer, activist, performer "An inspirational masterpiece ... Will transform the way you think about history, and the possibilities...
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Great Ancient Egypt Projects: You Can Build YourselfFrom reed boats, papyrus, and amulets, to pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies, Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself explores the fascinating lives of ancient Egyptians through more than25 hands-on building projects and activities. Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself gives readers...
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