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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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark UniversityA history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs.Author: David Hackett FischerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/20/1978Pages:...
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Greeking Out Heroes and OlympiansOh, Muses! Get ready for 20 brand-new, tongue-in-cheek tales from Greek mythology, as told by the team behind the smash hit podcast and New York Times best-selling book Greeking Out. Want to know the greatest feats and the funniest secrets of the gods and...
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Great Artists: Spot the DifferenceDoes the pitchfork in Grant Wood's American Gothic look slightly more menacing? What new fruits are adorning the emperor in Arcimboldo's Vertumnus? Keep your eyes peeled for irregularities in this exciting and challenging collection of 30 spot-the-difference puzzles. Simply compare the two images with...
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Graven Images The Tumultuous Life and Times of Augusta Savage, Harlem Renaissance SculptorOne of fourteen children, Augusta Savage grew up in a small town in the Deep South under oppressive Jim Crow laws, but she was determined to accomplish something special. Even though her father took the switch to her for making "graven images," she was...
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Gold, Jade and EleganceHelen B. Rand's "Gold, Jade and Elegance," first published in 1974, is a gem of a local history book and a favorite that has been out of print for a decade. This welcome second edition, with bright, illustrative old photos, rightly deserves to once...
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Glimpse of Glory: America in the New World Order - A Prophetic Mystery UnfoldedWandering, lost, or guessing on worldview, and particularly the future of America? But you don't have to. In this troubled world, find and know who you are, where you are, what you will be...By Bible prophecies and principles, amidst all distresses and struggles, America...
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Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate PoliticsGlacial: The Inside Politics of Climate Politics is the first Inside-the-Beltway account to lay bare the machinations of what went wrong in Washington-how and why our leaders failed to act on climate change as mounting scientific evidence underscored the urgency to do so.Author: Chelsea...
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Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of PaintingAline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet...
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Gaza Faces HistoryIn this urgent, insightful essay, a respected historian places the Israeli-Palestinian war in context, challenging Western attitudes about the region. Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process...
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Gargoyles and GrotesquesGargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated, and fashioned as serpents' heads and other fanciful shapes. Today, the term gargoyle is also popularly...
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Garden Cemeteries of New EnglandIn 1831 a new entity appeared on the American landscape: the garden cemetery. Meant to be places where the living could enjoy peace, tranquility and beauty, as well as to provide a final resting place for the dead, the garden cemeteries would forever change...
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Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic HistoryThis book explores the Fur Trade from an Ojibwe perspective, offering insights into Ojibwe life, kinship and clan systems, technologies, and puts Ojibwe women back at the heart of this remarkable era. The fur trade was the first global trading system and the Ojibwe...
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Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and SolidarityPhilosopher Michel Foucault's cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup in 1964 had installed a...
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Forged in Fire: An Australian Commando's Story of Life and Death on the FrontlineForged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos. Garry made a report on the radio: 'I see around 200 women and children heading north up the valley.' Less than 400 metres below us, a steady stream of women and...
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof FenceA Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara. This is the true account of Nugi Garimara's mother, Molly, made legendary by the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1931 Molly...
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First to Find Out: Scientists Who Changed the WorldWhat we think we know about science changes all the time. Every day, new discoveries are made and fresh ideas are brought to life. Study some of the scientists, mathematicians, and brilliant brainiacs whose questions--and answers--have helped our minds and bodies reach the next...
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First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, July 17, 1876Author: Paul L. HedrenPublisher: History NebraskaPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 62Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 9.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9780933307308
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First Flights: Trips Through Sky and SpaceOur feet are stuck firmly on the ground, yet people have stared into the sky for thousands of years. Who were the first people to imagine flying? And who was the first to actually do it? Blast off into discoveries that were made in...
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Finding My Father's Footsteps: A Journey Within the Battlefields of World War IIShocked by a stranger's accusation that her father lied about how he acquired the first volume of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler's personal copy of Mein Kampf during World War II, a daughter embarks on a journey to defend her father's honor. Armed with a...
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie HigginsMarguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful,...
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