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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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The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became ChristianizedA pathbreaking study of the serpent's symbolic meanings from 40,000 BCE to the present day In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist...
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The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to TodayGnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of...
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The Genealogy Of The Sprague's In Hingham: Arranged In Chronological Order, To The Fourth Generation, Counting From William Sprague, One Of The FirstThis 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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The Gathering Place: Stories from the Armenian Social Club in Old ShanghaiA hundred years ago, the small country of Armenia within the Ottoman Empire became the site of continuous border conflict, political intrigue and sporadic wars between the Turks, the Persians and the Tsarist Russians. Early in the twentieth century, these regional conflicts erupted into...
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The Frick Collection: Essential GuideAn informative guide to the most iconic works in The Frick Collection honoring the museum's reopening post-renovation. From paintings and sculpture to decorative arts, this publication encapsulates the range and depth of Henry Clay Frick's collection. Organized chronologically and by geographic school, The Frick...
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The Forgotten ManIt's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the...
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The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in AmericaThe revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown. The American government was faced with...
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The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence DarrowThe celebrated American lawyer Clarence Darrow was renowned for his spirited, ruthlessly logical defense of populist causes and controversial ideas. Even today, Darrow's words continue to frame public discussion about our civil liberties and our religious and civic life. In this timely volume, Pulitzer...
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The Enlightenment and Original SinAn eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is...
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The End of the European Era: 1890 to the PresentIts coverage of southern and eastern Europe is expanded, as is its coverage of social history--especially women's history. It charts the theme of globalization starting with the 1890s and moving through to post-9/11. This new edition also examines how twenty-first-century Europe has addressed issues...
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The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research 2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation, bringing...
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The Economics of Inflation"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the great German inflation from 1914 to 1923." -Henry HazlittThe Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany (1931), by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni is a widely-regarded study of the rise of hyperinflation in...
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The Dynamics of Early Judaean Law: Studies in the Diversity of Ancient Social and Communal LegislationThis collection of essays explores aspects of civil and criminal law in ancient Judaea. Whereas the majority of studies on Judaean law focus on biblical law codes (and, therefore, on laws related to sacrifice, cultic purity, and personal piety) this volume focus on laws...
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The Dyess StoryThis gripping memoir tells the story of William 'Ed' Dyess, a young American pilot who was shot down over the Philippines during World War II. After managing to escape from a Japanese prison camp, Dyess went on to play a key role in the...
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives ForeverHow Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them.After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance...
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The Crusader StatesThe only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an...
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The Counterfeit Cassidys: The Men and Women said to have been Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Ethel Place, who returned from South America.Claims that Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Ethel "Etta" Place returned from South America have been circulating for many years. Some authors reject the argument that the two outlaws were killed in San Vicente, Bolivia, on the night of 6-7 November 1908, asserting...
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The Complete Book of Us Presidents, Fifth Edition: Updated for 2024Discover the history and personal stories of 47 US Presidents in this beautifully illustrated volume. From the first president, George Washington, to the forty-seventh, Donald J. Trump, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office. Their stories are all included...
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The Compleat Rifleman Harris - The Adventures of a Soldier of the 95th (Rifles) During the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic WarsThe most famous Rifleman account in its complete and original form - unedited and unabridged Benjamin Harris' story has rightly won its place amongst the best and most well known British Army accounts of life on campaign during the war in Spain against Napoleon's...
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The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San FranciscoCreated in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew...
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