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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Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury RadicalOne of Britain's most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within the Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle, but her work...
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Unstoppable UsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks at the early history of humankind. A New York Times Best Book of the Year"Gripping...
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of WarShortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year "An exceedingly important book!" --General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA "Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare." --Chris Miller, New York Times bestselling...
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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith TodayFive hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.At the beginning of the...
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Umm Kulthum: The Star of the EastA picture book about the life and career of an unforgettable Arab icon, Umm Kulthum, the most powerful voice in the Arab world. Umm Kulthum was an iconic Arab singer whose powerful voice captivated the region for over five decades. Admired by the likes...
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Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning2021: As the centennial of one of the nation's worst race massacres approached, citizens of Tulsa faced the prospect with hope and dread. Hope that the anniversary would show Tulsa had changed since that day in 1921, when a white mob left the city's...
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief"James M. McPherson's Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the president's role as commander in chief. Few historians write as well as McPherson, and none evoke the sound of battle with...
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Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing RightsIn 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States and beyond. Like Brown v. Board of Education, the...
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Too Many EggsToo Many Eggs is a compendium of all things eggs. It is the most comprehensive book on egg cookery ever written with over 800 egg recipes from all-over-the-world. These recipes highlight and focus on tested and traditional recipes with ingredients that include multiple eggs....
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Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from HellTHE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." --T.J. Stiles, The New York Times "With a former newsman's nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we...
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori ArtA landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians--from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists. He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence, there is human dignity. In six hundred pages and with over five hundred illustrations,...
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Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant InvestigationFirst released in 1901, Thought-Forms was an in-depth exploration on the visual manifestations of thoughts and the notion that they exist as objects. Conceived by renowned theosophists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, the book consists of 58 illustrations based on Besant and Leadbeater's clairvoyant...
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The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and AutonomyAn exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in...
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo SquareNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008....
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The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World WarWhen was the last time someone around you brought up World War Two?It's a pretty popular war. Maybe you heard about it yesterday. Maybe last month. But it was probably recent. And when it came up, did you wish that you could be the...
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic ThinkersThe bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx--"all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish" (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to...
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The World According to Color: A Cultural HistoryA kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color--we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World...
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The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840From a preeminent legal scholar, a "fascinating" and "masterful" (Wall Street Journal) history of the American Constitution's formative decades When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But...
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader" -- Hillary Rodham Clinton The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five...
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The War on the WestAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the...
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