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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Brewing Barley Wines: Origins, History, and Making Them at Home TodayFor Craft Beer Drinkers and Homebrewers Alike From early English origins to modern American examples like Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot and Rogue's XS Old Crustacean, barley wines are a favored style among homebrewers and craft beer drinkers alike. In Brewing Barley Wines, widely respected beer...
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Bottom of the 33rd LP"Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough." --Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax "What a book--an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making." --Colum McCann, winner of the National Book...
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Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South IndiaThe first major exploration of the mural tradition in early modern South India An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals painted on walls and ceilings adorn the most...
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Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of AviationAt the age of seventeen, Samuel L. Broadnax, enamored with flying, enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with...
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Blood of the Ancients: The Pagan Origins of Modern HolidaysBrace yourselves, because Blood of the Ancients is not your typical holiday book. This is for the bold, the unapologetic, and the truth-seekers who are done swallowing the sanitized, whitewashed versions of history fed to us by religious institutions. This book will rip the...
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Black Urban History at the Crossroads: Race and Place in the American CityDrawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars...
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United StatesA new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book,...
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Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther PartyBlack Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. Joe Street highlights the complexity of the BPP's history through three key themes: the BPP's intellectual history, its political and social...
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My PeopleA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue--and its fascinating role in Black history and culture--from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in...
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Bill Hobby: A Life in Journalism and Public ServiceA comprehensive biography of a legendary lieutenant governor. During his five terms as lieutenant governor of Texas, Bill Hobby became one of the most powerful political figures in the state's history. He was first elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 1972 and served until...
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Billy and Olive Dixon: The Plainsman and His LadyBilly Dixon triggered the most celebrated shot in the history of the West at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. A few months later, while serving as an army scout, Billy earned a Medal of Honor during an even more desperate engagement, as...
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Bible Study Workbook: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Unlocking the Essentials of All 66 BooksUnlock the Bible: Simplify Complex Scriptures and Apply Them to Your Life!Does the Bible seem intimidating when you look through the pages and see the dense paragraphs?Have you tried reading the Bible but struggled to piece together the scripture's meanings?Do you understand a few...
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Beyond the Dressing TableBeyond the Dressing Table, Mary Lorine Buckman's second cookbook, focuses on joy and success. Food provides a family joy through celebrations, vacations and sweet desserts. Food gives kids and adults the nourishment they need to be successful in whatever they choose to do. Beyond...
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Between Ukraine and Russia: Working In AmericaThis wide-ranging and profoundly insightful memoir picks up where The Eyes Are The Same, Susan Gold's searing Holocaust chronicle, left off. She considers the years she spent in America, her education, her marriage and family, and her career in the precious-metals division of a...
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Battle of Gettysburg for KidsGet enchanted with Battle of Gettysburg history and its remarkable events.Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history...
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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory TextA one-of-a-kind textbook teaching Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic. This textbook is dedicated to spoken Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic--the native tongue spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq--and is designed to guide beginners to an advanced level of speaking. It focuses on common expressions,...
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Bacard? y la larga lucha por Cuba = Bacardi and the Long Fight for CubaA history of Cuba as reflected by the famous Bacardi rum family traces five generations during which they served as an example of business and civic leadership while alternately fighting for national freedom and honoring their country as exiles.Author: Tom GjeltenPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished:...
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A Written Republic: Cicero's Philosophical PoliticsWhy philosophy was politics by other means for Rome's greatest statesman In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an...
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Awesome Fierce DinosaursPacked with awesome facts, this interactive book is guaranteed to elevate your knowledge about some of the most fearsome dinosaurs that ever lived on Earth. Do you dare to discover the fiercest of them all?From horrible hunters, deadly defenders, small but mighty predators, marine...
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A Synopsis of the Four EvangelistsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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