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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Save my Children: An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely HeroA young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk his own life to save the children?An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of...
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Satanism: A Social HistoryA 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there....
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Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan)Welcome to Saskatchewan! Come with me, Grayson, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, animal, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to...
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San Jos? to Viet 'Nam and Back"Richard T. Garc?a has written an eloquent, courageous, and heartfelt book on the challenging and debilitating effects of post-traumaticstress disorder (PTSD), from having served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War. Garc?a details the challenges on his road to recovery, and discusses the...
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Sage and CedarDarrell Marcus Kills In Sight - Wambli Ohitika-Brave Eagle. Darrell is a last-generation fluent Lakota speaker from Spring Creek, Rosebud Sioux-Sicangu tribe, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. A direct family descendant of the Crazy Horse family.-Ta'sunka Witko Tiospaye. His generational family stories of Lakota traditional...
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Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their LivesRussia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following...
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Romans Proves Paul Lied - Have we inherited lies from our fathers?Have We Inherited Lies From Our Fathers? (Jeremiah 16:19: Elohim, my Strength, my Stronghold, and my Refuge on the day of distress! To Your nations will come from the ends of the earth and say: "It was all falsehood that our ancestors inherited, futility...
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Roman Empire for Kids: The history from the founding of Ancient Rome to the fall of the Roman EmpireRoman Empire for Kids: The history from the founding of Ancient Rome to the fall of the Roman Empire-----------Do you wish to help your little one understand a bit about the history and are specifically interested in making them understand the Roman Empire?And are...
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Rights of Future Generations: ConditionsThe first in a two-volume installment documenting the inaugural Sharjah Architecture TriennialThe inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial includes works by architects, artists, activists, choreographers and scientists examining sites of resistance, emancipation and experimentation. The 27 essays featured here--the first of two volumes published for the...
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Revolución en Juego: La izquierda joven en Teapa Tabasco, en los años 70REVOLUCIÓN EN JUEGO aborda el caminar de un grupo de jóvenes en los años 70's, el proceso formativo en el terreno socialista y la lucha de clases, su vinculación a los problemas sociales en la ciudad de Teapa, municipio del Estado de Tabasco, en...
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Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District: January 4, 1782-December 29, 1785In 1843 in Seneca Falls, New York, Rhonda Bement was brought before a disciplinary trial at her church, the First Presbyterian Church, charged with "unchristian and unladylike" behavior. Her transgression was to challenge the authority and integrity of her minister because he had refused...
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Remembering Chapel Hill: The Twentieth Century as We Lived ItSince the 1789 charter of the country's first state university, Chapel Hill has attracted people from all over who found that the town was the perfect place to put down roots. In this collection, local newspaper columnist Valarie Schwartz celebrates many of Chapel Hill's...
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Rembrandt: Biography of a RebelAn authoritative biography of the Dutch MasterIn 2019, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt (1606-69), Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is honoring the artist with an unprecedented exhibition, appropriately titled All the Rembrandts. The "Year of Rembrandt" also brings us Rembrandt:...
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Regional History of Medieval India: Society, Culture and EconomyReconstructs Indian regional history, from the rooting of Arab principality in Sind to the arrival of colonial rule in eastern India. Regional History of Medieval India: Society, Culture and Economy is a compilation of twenty chapters written on various themes associated with regional history...
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Redacted: The Secret History of ExorcismRedacted examines the evolution of the ministry of deliverance, tracing its roots from the Gospels to the twentieth century. This in-depth exploration reveals the contours of Jesus' and the apostles' ministry, and how their practices influenced the fervent exorcisms of the pre-Nicene Church, igniting...
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Reconstructing Prehistoric Communities' Mobility in ApuliaReconstructing Prehistoric Communities' Mobility in Apulia presents pioneering scholarly research to illuminate the interplay between ancient societies and their physical environment during the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. The study introduces novel methodologies and analytical frameworks, yielding insights into the dynamics of prehistoric settlement...
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Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It AllToday's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that Reagan's revolution did not begin when he took office in 1980, but in...
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Reading Bible with Founding Fathers CNo book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible?...
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Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsAround the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist land and resource regimes--the markers of modernity and progress that were the...
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Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, "Coxey's Army" marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s...
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