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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A Runner's JourneyIn the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became...
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Haunted History of DelawareDelaware's long history has created many ghostly echoes in the present day, places where the souls of the dead have not yet found rest. Experience the eerie legend of Fiddler's Bridge, meet the ghosts in the Governor's Mansion and learn the truth behind the...
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Colorado and the Silver Crash: The Panic of 1893A catastrophic depression engulfed Colorado in 1893. The government's decision to adopt the gold standard and stop buying silver hit the mining industry like a cave-in. Unemployment reached 90 percent in Leadville, a city built on silver. Strikes by union miners in Cripple Creek...
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Sears Crosstown in Memphis: From Catalogues to a ConcourseWhen it opened in 1927, Sears Crosstown, now Crosstown Concourse, was the southeastern regional warehouse and distribution center for the Sears Catalogue mail-order empire. Each day, more than forty-five thousand orders were processed by more than 1,500 workers. As a result, Sears Crosstown became...
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Los Angeles RailwayThe Los Angeles Railway's Yellow Cars, a system cobbled together from numerous horse-powered lines, cable car lines, and upstart narrow-gauge trolley companies, served downtown and its environs in some iteration from 1898 to 1963. Henry Huntington assembled this conglomerate, making it functionally effective and...
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Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater SouthwestA comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a unique comparative narrative approach...
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903The Iroquois Theater in Chicago, boasting every modern convenience, advertised itself proudly as "absolutely fireproof" when it opened in November, 1903. Mr. Bluebeard, a fairy tale musical imported from the Drury Lane Theatre in London was the opening production. And leading the troupe of...
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Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil Volume 5Art produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of...
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La Esencia Pura de la Mente: La Antigua Tradición Dzogchen del TíbetEn todo momento nos esforzamos por alcanzar la felicidad y las respuestas esenciales de nuestra vida. En este libro hallaremos el aprendizaje basado en la tradición Dzogchen que nos enseñará que la Gran Perfección está dentro de nosotros mismos, sin esfuerzos, solo hay que...
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#Icp Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis: Global Images for Global CrisisA diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a digital phenomenon in lockdown.Author:...
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We Were Never There: Volume 1: CIA U-2 Operations Over Europe, Ussr, and the Middle East, 1956-1960Devised by Kelly Johnson and initially operated by the CIA, the U-2 is the world's most famous 'spyplane.' It flew at unprecedented altitudes and carried the most sophisticated sensors available, all in the greatest secrecy. Operating from remote locations and without markings, they often...
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Never Ready: Nato's Flexible Response Strategy, 1968-1989Was Britain's implementation of NATO strategy credible? After the adoption of Flexible Response in 1967 NATO relied on conventional forces to defend the West. Britain had a central role in NATO's plans, but was British defense planning adequate for the task? How did the...
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Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher CollectionThis exhibition catalog explores the remarkable theatrical designs of Italy's influential Bibiena family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs...
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Los Tudor: Una Fascinante Guía de la Historia de Inglaterra desde Enrique VII hasta Isabel IExplore la Fascinante Historia de los TudorCinco monarcas Tudor se sentaron en el trono de Inglaterra e Irlanda de 1485 a 1603. La familia se ganó sus derechos reales a través de la planificación estratégica y de sus proezas en el campo de batalla,...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time."-Kirkus Review "Of female slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave...
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The NegroA thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inherited its legacy. W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the hidden stories that connect these varied communities. Originally published in 1915, The Negro presents...
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God Jul: A Swedish ChristmasRevel in the joy of a Swedish Christmas! The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of...
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Antisemitism on the Rise: The 1930s and TodayWe live in uncertain and unsettling times. Tragically, today's global culture is rife with violent bigotry, nationalism, and antisemitism. The rhetoric is not new; it is grounded in attitudes and values from the 1930s and the 1940s in Europe and the United States. Antisemitism...
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Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis IslandThe immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting...
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American Military Helicopters and Vertical/Short Landing and Takeoff Aircraft Since 1941Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield. The U.S. has led the world in vertical lift technologies with the help of some of...
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