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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Paper: Paging Through HistoryPaper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the...
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Pagan BritainBritain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and...
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Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri ResistanceA displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Raráaacute;muri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language...
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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War IIOur Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in...
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Our Blood Runs Black McClure #1 Mine ExplosionAuthors Marsha Sutherland Self and Rebecca Riner White document personal accounts of coal mining families and how their lives changed on June 21, 1983.On June 21, 1983, a devastating explosion rocked the two-left section of McClure #1 Mine in Virginia, one mile into the...
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered EuropeAN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492...
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On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the UnionNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in...
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One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague KindertransportSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. *Now a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter* In 1938, 29-year-old...
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One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with a Foreword by Mike PompeoTHE TERRORIST MASSACRE COMMITTED BY HAMAS AGAINST INNOCENT ISRAELIS ON OCTOBER 7, 2023 BROUGHT GREAT TRAUMA TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL.BUT IT ALSO HAS BROUGHT GREAT CLARITY. It is this clarity that tells us we must try something NEW. It is this clarity that...
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One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty StoriesAuthor: Yair AgmonPublisher: MaggidPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9781592646883
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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-KennedyA NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER *The basis for the forthcoming season of American Love Story on FX, directed by Ryan Murphy* This "intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was" (Dana Thomas,...
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Number's Up: Cracking the Code of an American FamilyAuthor: Johnisha Matthews LeviPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.61h x 5.91w x 0.83dISBN: 9781985902329About the AuthorLevi, Johnisha Matthews: - Johnisha Matthews Levi is a nonprofit development professional and former litigation attorney. Her writing has appeared in Wildsam, thekitchn.com, Northern...
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year WarIn the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese...
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Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg GordievskyOleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then...
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she's been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast,...
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at MidcenturyAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales SetGet three fan-favorite tales of American history from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series in this must-have collectible boxed set! Hilarious, gruesome, and packed with facts, this series introduces readers to some of the strangest moments in history. In this boxed set,...
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My Little World: DinosaursYoung children will love learning about dinosaurs big and small with this engaging novelty book, publishing into the successful My Little World series by Priddy Books. With wheels to turn, tabs to pull, and flaps to open, preschoolers will love interacting with the engaging...
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi...
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and FutureAlice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents "a celebration of all things country music" (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even...
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