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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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Catharine Beecher: The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century AmericaCatharine Beecher: The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America investigates how the life of education reformer Catharine Beecher is a lens through which to understand the cultural changes of the nineteenth century.Catharine Beecher's writings outlined a unique domestic role for women just as urbanization...
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Battle: A History of Combat and CultureA noted military historian offers a cultural approach to the history of warfare, insisting that we understand combat best when we study the beliefs, values, and expectations of the adversaries. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to...
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The Surridges of Woodleigh: The Story of Two Saskatchewan Pioneer FamiliesThe Surridges of Woodleigh tells the story of the lives of the author's ancestors who left their loved ones in England in the late 1800s to make a better life for themselves on the sparsely populated prairies of post-confederation Canada. From a graveyard in...
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The Chronicle of the CzechsThe Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, it is the source of the oldest stories...
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Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 1-5Origen of Alexandria's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans is the oldest extant commentary on Romans (ca. 246). This volume presents the first English translation of the commentary, covering his exegesis of Rom 1:1 to 6:11. One of his longest and most mature...
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The South and the New DealWhen Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its education level the lowest, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Roosevelt's New Deal...
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Wildcat Memories: Inside Stories from Kentucky Basketball GreatsSince the tenure of Coach Adolph Rupp, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has been a virtual powerhouse, repeatedly dominating the Southeastern Conference and garnering eight national titles. UK basketball is a homegrown tradition for sports enthusiasts, fostering a community that thrives...
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Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the SouthManufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in...
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Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known...
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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I" The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this...
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Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854The construction of the Erie Canal may truly be described as a major event in the growth of the young United States. At a time when the internal links among the states were scanty, the canal's planners boldly projected a system of transportation that...
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My WorldWith a Foreword by Wade Hall A personalized travelogue, My World chronicles the inspiring story of a poor Kentucky boy who learned how to turn the rough grist of his life into the fine art of literature. Jesse Stuart's life centered on W-Hollow, Greenup...
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Dancing with Merce CunninghamDancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer's lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time. Marianne Preger-Simon's story opens amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed World War II. While immersed in the vibrant...
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Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom"Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations."--Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much and Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry "Shows...
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Who Owns Haiti?: People, Power, and SovereigntyAlthough Haiti established its independence in 1804, external actors such as the United States, the United Nations, and non-profits have wielded considerable influence throughout its history. Especially in the aftermath of the Duvalier regime and the 2010 earthquake, continual imperial interventions have time and...
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade ProphetWall Street Journal's Five Best Books About Cults The true story ofcult leader Cyrus Teed and his hollow earth theoryFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida....
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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South"This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury...
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The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts"The best compilation of work about the French and Indian War to date."--James Parker, coauthor of Archaeology at Fort Mims "Provides images of life on the expanding American frontier of the mid-eighteenth century. A unique and significant discussion of the French and Indian War."--Clarence...
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Travels on the St. Johns RiverIn 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the plants, animals, geography, ecology, and native cultures of an...
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Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics"Groundbreaking. Shabout elucidates two critical issues that have thus far received inadequate scholarly attention--the distinction between Islamic Art and Arab Art and the relatedness of the political and artistic processes in the history of Arab modernity."--Shiva Balaghi, coeditor of Picturing Iran: Art, Society and...
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