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 Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & HideoutsThe capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow...
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The Border and the Buffalo: the Recollections of a Buffalo Hunter & Indian Fighter on the American West FrontierHunting the buffalo and fighting Indians on the western frontier For millennia the great herds of North American bison (or buffalo as they were popularly known) had roamed the continental heartland followed by the indigenous Indian tribes whose own existence in every sense depended...
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The Border and the Buffalo: the Recollections of a Buffalo Hunter & Indian Fighter on the American West FrontierHunting the buffalo and fighting Indians on the western frontier For millennia the great herds of North American bison (or buffalo as they were popularly known) had roamed the continental heartland followed by the indigenous Indian tribes whose own existence in every sense depended...
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The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North KoreaNorth Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D....
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market"An immense scholarly feat."-New Yorker * "[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late."-Esquire With a New Afterword by the Authors. The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history...
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The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our StoriesAlthough humble in their function, these carefully crafted barns have shaped the landscape of Maine for centuries.Built long before the days of plastic and plywood, the barns have survived for generations, each with a story to tell. In Bridgton, one barn offered comfort to...
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The Backslider: His Nature, Symptoms and Recovery"ANDREW FULLER was, in my opinion, one of the greatest theologians, which modern times, or any times have produced, and his writings are an almost inexhaustible mine of doctrinal, practical, and experimental truth, which every Christian and especially every minister, would do well to...
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The Art of Newspaper MakingThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Art of Fashion: 1850 - 1859: Dress, Sewing, and Clothing Care Advice"To increase the beauty of the female person, by a gracefully made attire, is not only not wrong, but absolutely commendable; and the woman who neglects it pays the penalty of being called a sloven, if not a fright."Peterson's Magazine, April 1852During the 1850s,...
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The Apostle of the ChippewasThis is the biography of Most Reverend Frederic Baraga, a missionary to the Indigenous peoples in the Upper Peninsula from 1830 to his death in 1868. It was written in 1932 by Joseph Gregorich, one of the founders of the Bishop Baraga Association. The...
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The American Revolution: What Can We Learn from the People Who Witnessed War?The American Revolution shaped the future of every man, woman, and child who lived through it. Full of eyewitness accounts, this book reveals what it was like to be part of this devastating conflict. With primary sources, timelines, and insightful accounts that reveal the...
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The American CrisisThomas Paine wrote the American Crisis in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the moral of the Continental Army. THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from...
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The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth CenturyA panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism Africa's long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural innovation for the continent's states, societies, and economies. Yet the period preceding what became known as "the Scramble for Africa" by...
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Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black DiasporaTelling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it....
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Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global CultureWhen Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. Mostly taken between 1978 and 2005, these photographs recorded the contemporary expressions of tatau (tattoo) and told the story of the late Sulu'ape Paulo...
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Tarmacs and Trenches: The Life and Disappearance of Lt Gen Millard F. Harmon, Jr."Millard Harmon is the most important airman people don't know. A flyer through and through, it fell to him alone among senior pilots in World War II to command a large Army organization on the fighting front. He remains the shining light for air...
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Tanks in the Philippines 1944-45: The Biggest Armored Clashes of the Pacific WarThe first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War. The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In this book,...
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Taken by the NazisThis book, although not academic will certainly give the reader a glimpse of prewar Holland and a much more detailed account of the German Occupation, 1940-1945. The author now resides with his wife in Oregon and is a retired Assistant Professor of the University...
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Survivors on 9/11Showcases survival stories of people who made it out of the attacks alive. This book describes the experiences of people who survived the harrowing events at the 9/11 attack sites. Additional features include a table of contents, a fast-facts section, infographics, critical-thinking questions, a...
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Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala DaliSurreal, the long-awaited, definitive biography of Gala Dal?, unmasks this famous yet little-known queen of the twentieth-century art world, who graced the canvases, inspired the poetry, and influenced the careers of her illustrious lovers and husbands with tenderness, courage, and agency.Using previously undiscovered material,...
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