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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Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and MurderLet Keir Graff take you inside Chicago's Fine Arts Building - a building that hides worlds behind its doors. Exploring the Fine Arts Building's warren of hallways is like stepping into a time machine. It's not a museum--it's a place of work. The walls...
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Chernobyl: The Fall of AtomgradHarrowing and graphic re-telling of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster from the creator of George Orwell's 1984 graphic novel.This graphic and harrowing account of nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl in April 1986 follows the dozens of human stories cruelly affected by disaster.From the engineers and firefighters...
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Celtic Art: The Methods of ConstructionThe construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating The Book of Kells and in decorating craftwork and jewelry seemed almost impossible, "the...
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Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of FaithThe acclaimed best-selling author and popular historian explores the history of Europe via its cathedrals. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of the history of Western civilization showcases the cathedral's central role in the European imagination. A masterful writer, Jenkins tells...
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Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women, gender nonconforming people, and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills, New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their...
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Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?"Great fun and fascinating history." --School Library Journal, (starred review) This entertaining volume, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz, sheds light on the life of England's King George III. It begins when he was a bashful boy who blushed easily, goes on to his...
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Can Science Explain Everything?Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science, and the technologies it has spawned, has delivered so much to the world: clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise...
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California: An American HistoryA concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation "A masterful history."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely...
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We LoveAward-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is...
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World2019 Eisner Award Winner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of...
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Bravery Beyond Borders: The Journey of the Assyrian People (Assyrian Edition)This edition is presented in the Assyrian language, inviting readers to join Ashur and Ninwe on a heartfelt journey through Bravery Beyond Borders: The Journey of the Assyrian People. This inspirational tale, written especially for children, follows the resilience of the Assyrian community, blending...
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Born in the USA: The Story of Immigration and BelongingWHO BELONGS IN AMERICA? The latest installment of the World Citizen Comics Line, Born in the USA, tracks the history of immigration to the United States, highlighting the twists and turns in the nearly three-hundred-year-old national debate to decide who gets to call themselves...
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle EastA New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979....
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American SouthFrom the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated...
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Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic BombSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened...
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Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United StatesA radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what...
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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 "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, "the most important interpreter of Black life in our time" (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the...
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Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing LegacyBlack Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary city....
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero"A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls' astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the country that African Americans were extraordinarily capable of fighting for their freedom. Lineberry has produced a triumph in this heroic story that...
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