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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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Sea & FogThese interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once.Author: Etel AdnanPublisher: Nightboat...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the HolocaustHow did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on...
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Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American FootballAmerican football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880s, in part because learning how to deal with the pain and violence, to "take it," made men out of college boys. Michael Oriard, former NFL linebacker...
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Ryder Cup Rivals: The Fiercest Battles for Golf's Holy GrailVeteran journalist and author Hank Gola takes readers on a tour of the most consequential clashes in the history of the biennial matches. Since the first meeting between the United States and Great Britain in 1927, the Ryder Cup has become the most passionate...
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Russia's World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the WestRussia's World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and...
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Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver FamilyWith a new introduction"The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print." -- Washington TimesFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter, here is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and...
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Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a NationThe "impeccably researched and thrillingly told" (Globe and Mail) story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II "A moving example of moral courage."--Elie Wiesel, winner of...
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Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of AmericaThe inspirational story of grassland rivers--and the people who paddle and protect them. The North American grasslands that once covered vast areas of the central United States are now our most endangered ecosystems. But not far from any spot in the grasslands is a...
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Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the MoveItalian and Irish immigrant experiences When people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage--with its elements of preparation, departure, transit, admission, exclusion, expulsion, and return--helps us understand these moments in the process of migration...
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Rise to Command: Black Military Officers' Stories of Survival and Leadership from World War II Through the Cold WarAn intimate view of the triumphs and challenges experienced by Black officers in the twentieth century.Rise to Command is a social history told in the words of seventeen Black military officers who grew up in the Jim Crow era and served in the US...
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Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its LegacyWith a new preface, a "profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history" that investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community (Boston Globe). On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a...
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Rez LifeCelebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle...
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger HissA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the twentieth century.When Alger Hiss was accused by Whittaker Chambers in 1948...
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the PeopleA National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor Book With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers--as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working...
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Revelations of Divine LoveOne of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature After fervently praying for a greater...
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Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and PeaceIn 1945, just after the end of World War II, Captain Orval Amdahl brought home a Japanese sword as a souvenir of war. Sixty-eight years later, he gave it back. Orval Amdahl grew up in rural Minnesota and enlisted in the Marines during World...
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Reston Hardcore: An Oral History of Jam for Man and BeyondReston Hardcore: An oral history of jam for man and beyond by Andy KeilerNorthern Virginia in the 80s and 90s was the greatest independent music scene that almost nobody has ever heard of. Drawing inspiration from the raw energy of DC hardcore and the...
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Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in PalestineA materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics? Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places...
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Rescuing Titanic: A True Story of Quiet Bravery in the North AtlanticThis exquisitely illustrated story of quiet bravery tells in rich detail how the little ship Carpathia saved 705 passengers of the Titanic from the icy waters of the North Atlantic. With the approaching 110-year anniversary of the ship's sinking, Rescuing Titanic shares a unique...
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