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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In Search of Sisterhood: Delta SIGMA Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority MovementIn Search of Sisterhood is the definitive history of the largest Black women's organization in the United States, and is filled with compelling, fascinating anecdotes told by the Delta Sigma Theta members themselves, illustrated with rare early photographs of the Delta women.This book contains...
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Gothic: An Illustrated HistoryA richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an...
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The King James Study Bible, Imitation Leather, Burgundy, Full-Color EditionThe full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study Bibles on...
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History: The Definitive Visual GuideThis lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day. Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that...
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Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret MasterpiecesUncover the artistic masterworks hidden across New York City in this charmingly illustrated exploration of one of the world's greatest creative treasure troves. There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture,...
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche"Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures forth the avalanche."--The New York Times In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere...
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo NeighborhoodLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and...
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Precarious JapanIn an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life...
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. MarshalCoretta Scott King Author Award Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped slavery to become the first African American Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi. Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on...
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Blackbeard the PirateEdward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea rovers. His daring exploits,...
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Japanese Popular Culture and GlobalizationJapanese Popular Culture and Globalization is the only concise overview of Japan's phenomenal impact on world pop culture available in English. Surveying Japanese forms from anime (animation) and manga (comic books) to monster movies and Hello Kitty products, this volume is an accessible introduction...
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Step by Step!: How the Lincoln School Marchers Blazed a Trail to Justice"Imagine you had to walk 600 miles to get fair treatment at school!" Twelve-year-old Joyce Clemons introduces a fictional memory book documenting the little-known true story of nineteen Black mothers, thirty-seven children, and their two-year march to integrate an Ohio elementary school. Following the...
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Puerto RicoFrom watching wildlife in El Yunque National Forest to exploring Old San Juan, Puerto Rico is full of adventures. This title introduces the US territory's people, culture, and places to visit. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look...
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Robert E. Lee: A LifeA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil...
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Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee BetschThis heartfelt picture book biography illustrated by the Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes, tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved. MaVynee loved going to the beach. But in the days of Jim Crow, she...
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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of CivilizationCivilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--And Why It FailedBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy. Everyone...
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 YearsIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of...
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*A Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the Year"Witty and entertaining."--Sarah Knight"Laugh-out-loud."--Steve BrusatteAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYModern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science,...
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Foxfire 12: Square Dancing, Crafts, Cherokee Traditions, Summer Camps, World War Veterans, PersonalitiesFor more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has...
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