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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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Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the AsylumThe nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new...
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Triangle of One Hundred Years WarsThe book "Triangle of One Hundred Years Wars" provides an incredibly gripping and riveting South African historiography, chronologically articulated through an endogenous lens by a native South African. It chronicles a record reflective of the fundamental historical events within the southern part of Africa....
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T'ree Tins of Turpentine: Dirt Poor and Irish in Sixties Leicester - One Family's True Story (Updated with Colour Photos)"Go on, say "T'ree tins of turpentine!", you bogtrotter!" was one of many jeers towards Irish families settling in Leicester in the 1950s, and is the inspiration behind the title of Tim O'Sullivan's debut book.In 2008, after realising he was the family storyteller at...
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À travers la Normandie martyretravers la Normandie martyr: Notes de voyage du 6 juin au 30 ao t 1944Qunad un p re fran ais travaillant Paris d couvre que les troupes alli es de D-Day ont d barqu 10km de la ferme o se trouve sa famille, il...
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Tourney Time: Stories from the Minnesota Boys State Hockey TournamentEight decades of big names and memorable games--chronicling the highs and lows, the memories, and the legends from the Minnesota boys' state high school tournament--fully revised and updated with all the action through the 2023 tournament. Every spring, the state of Minnesota--from urban metropolises...
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To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and PeaceThe celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of Europe Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past and the secret of...
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To Risk It All: General Forbes, the Capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Course of Empire in the Ohio CountryGeneral John Forbes's campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years' War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and...
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Tom Cotter's Best Barn-Find Collector Car TalesTom Cotter is the best-known barn-find collector-car expert working today. Tom Cotter's Best Barn-Find Collector Car Tales pulls together his best barn find stories from America and around the globe. Tom Cotter bought his first barn find some 50 years ago and has never...
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Tiberius BoundThis is the story of Tiberius Claudius Nero, the step-son of Augustus Caesar, who, despite obstacles and his own reluctance, became the second emperor of Rome. His public life spanned the tumultuous period of transition from the Roman Republic to the Emperorship, and his...
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Three weeks at Gettysburg.Title: Three weeks at Gettysburg.Author: Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson WoolseyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to...
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Thomas Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia': A ProlegomenaWhy did Jefferson write 'Notes on the State of Virginia'? There are today two common theses. The first, the Alphabet-Soup Thesis, maintains that the book is more or less a loose collection of notes in answer to the 22 queries given by French diplomat...
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The World of MangaAuthor: Carla MooneyPublisher: Brightpoint PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781678207588Audience: Young Adult
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The World of AnimeAuthor: Carla MooneyPublisher: Brightpoint PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781678207564Audience: Young Adult
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The Workingman's Game: Waverly, New York, the Twin Tiers and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1887-1898Professional baseball in the late 1890s was at a dangerous crossroads. Attendance was low, team rosters were unstable, and monopolistic major league owners were shrinking the game to avoid losing money. Meanwhile, players were refining their craft and organizing themselves in order to expand...
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The Wooden Architecture of Northern Europe: From the Viking Era to the 20th CenturyThis book explores the wealth of wooden architecture that is to be found in the Fennoscandian Peninsula. This distinct region, which includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Russian Republic of Karelia, was dominated by coniferous forest. Wood was seen as a living material--one that...
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The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the RepublicIn the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans'...
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The Woman in the MoonMarjorie Saiser's The Woman in the Moon is her 7th book with The Backwaters Press. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick...
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The War Zone A Story of Christopher Columbus Homes Newark New Jersey Projects People Who Lived There Second EditionWhenever I go online to perform research, I often spend some time revisiting Newark, New Jersey the city where I grew up. I find negative accounts of living there overwhelming in comparison to the positives, especially those stories depicting life in the hi-rise public...
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The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it....
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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about DistractionThe digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a...
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