History
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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Oregon Aviation: A Daring HistoryFrom hot air balloons to home-built aircraft, the people of Oregon pursued every opportunity to explore the skies. By the late 1800s, air travel had captured the imagination of the entire nation. From hot air balloons to home-built aircraft, the people of Oregon pursued...
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Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb: Young Readers Edition of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerThe #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, OPPENHEIMER, and is now adapted for young readers. This brand-new edition introduces the next generation to one of the twentieth century's most iconic and complex global...
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Operativo Independencia Volume 2: Argentina's War Against the Guerrillas, 1975-1976Operativo Independencia (The Independence Operation) offers a detailed military history of the massive and effective military response ordered by the constitutional government of President Mar?a Estela Mart?nez de Per?n of Argentina. Decree No. 261/75 of 5 February 1975 had the objective of annihilating guerrilla...
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Operation Steinbock 1944: The Luftwaffe's Disastrous Last Blitz Over EnglandThe story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. Operation Steinbock, or as it became known, the 'Baby Blitz' was the Luftwaffe's last sustained night bomber offensive against the...
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Open Play: The Case for Feminist SportA thought-provoking manifesto arguing for the end of gender segregation in athletics. Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford argue that the category of "women's sports" is not the feminist win some would have you believe. Instead, the segregation of women in sports is just one...
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North Korea: Survival of a Political DynastyThe Kim family of North Korea is the most successful political dynasty of the twentieth century, and it shows no signs of loosening its grip on power. A communist dictatorship formed in the embers of the Second World War, it heads one of the...
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Northeast Georgia: A HistoryIn the late eighteenth century, waves of intrepid settlers made their way down the Great Wagon Road into the virgin wilderness of Northeast Georgia to find new homes and opportunity for land and wealth. Against a dramatic mountainous backdrop, these pioneers carved out farms...
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Noah DavisThis striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral...
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New York City in the Civil WarNew York City was the center of business, commerce, manufacturing, culture, and war spirit in the North during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln gained an important national audience at the Cooper Institute in February 1860. Tens of thousands of young men enlisted in the...
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New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and SocietyWho are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines-including history, religious studies, demography, linguistics,...
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New Jersey in the Jazz AgeThe Garden State After the Great WarPost-World War I life was dramatically different for New Jersey than it had been prior to the war. By 1920, the war was over for the Europeans, but it was still on for America until President Harding signed...
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New Hampshire Covered BridgesUPDATED IN 2014!!A Source book for Photographers and ExplorersDescriptions to all of New Hampdhires's 61 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, including PhotographsGPS PositionsPhoto tips for each bridgeA short history of Covered Bridges in North America and a review of the various Truss TypesA valuable feature...
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New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 11A: Texts from EphesusThis volume of the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series introduces scholars and students to the historical, political, civic, religious, cultural, and social context of Ephesian inscriptional evidence. Each of the twenty-five entries includes the original inscription, translation, and a commentary that sheds light...
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New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 11A: Texts from EphesusThis volume of the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series introduces scholars and students to the historical, political, civic, religious, cultural, and social context of Ephesian inscriptional evidence. Each of the twenty-five entries includes the original inscription, translation, and a commentary that sheds light...
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Near a Plantation: Free Villages in Barbados, 1905-1945The book is an attempt to show that, contrary to general belief, free villages were established in Barbados soonafter the end of the Apprenticeship in 1838. The term "free villages" is employed in the way that it was coined byits author, William Knibb, Baptist...
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Native American Art - Art History Books for Kids Children's Art BooksThe most significant and popular examples of Native American art can be seen in totem poles. But the Native Americans also used other mediums for their art. Your child will be learning all about the Native American art history in the pages of this...
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonClassic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the "Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United...
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Narrative of my Captivity Among the Sioux Indians: With a Brief Account of General Sully's Indian Expedition in 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring inFirst published in 1871, this book is the harrowing account of Fanny Kelly's five months of captivity at the hands of the Sioux Indians in 1864. The book also includes a brief account of General Sully's Indian Expedition, which provides context for the events...
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Mythology of Mesopotamia: Fascinating Insights, Myths, Stories & History From The World's Most Ancient Civilization. Sumerian, Akkadian, BabylonEmpires rose and fell along the banks of the Tigris & Euphrates, whilst a civilization as yet unsurpassed emerged... Discover Myths, History & More From The World's Most Ancient Civilization!Mesopotamia, the land "between two rivers" was an ancient region located in modern-day Iraq and...
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My Life JourneyThe book is about the six children (all girls) the author and her husband adopted from South Korea. The author's husband had a friend who happened to be a professor at the University of Arizona. The professor had the author promise to write a...
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