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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Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and InnovatorsSan Diego enjoys a diverse legacy of formidable female leaders. Ellen Browning Scripps financed and established the groundbreaking Scripps Oceanography Institute. In 1927, Belle Benchley became the nation's first female zoo director and for nearly thirty years pioneered new forms of exhibition and developed...
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Wicked Women of MissouriMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of Outlaw State, but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle Queen of the Bandits Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime novelists in business with...
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Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaires' RowExtreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior.May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of...
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Texas Boomtowns:: A History of Blood and OilAuthor: Bartee HailePublisher: History PressPublished: 11/30/2015Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9781467118231
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Baseball in Hot SpringsHot Springs, known for its naturally heated springs and therapeutic bathhouses, became a major training ground in baseball. A must-have for fans of baseball history.Hot Springs, Arkansas, with its thermal water baths, attracted its first big-league outfit when the National League champion Chicago White...
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GuymonGuymon, the Queen City of the Oklahoma Panhandle, has long been the linchpin of Panhandle commerce, education, and entertainment. As a community of over 12,000 residents, it has seen growth--especially in the past two decades--mainly because of a rise in its immigrant population. With...
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Ansley ParkAnsley Park, the first suburb built on the north side of Atlanta, has been the residence of many of the city's most prominent citizens. Images of America: Ansley Park is a pictorial history of this beautiful and unique suburb and its surrounding area. In...
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Tulsa's Historic Greenwood DistrictIn the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa's historic African American community, the Greenwood District.This Negro Wall Street bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism swelled in sectors of white Tulsa, and white rioters seized...
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Fort WorthFort Worth exudes a vivacious Western spirit founded upon a rich history. In 1849, four years after the Republic of Texas became the 28th state, the Army built a fort to keep native tribes west of the Trinity. That fort grew into a focal...
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Historic Magnolia CemeteryNew settlements require proper resting places for their dead. Around 1763, British troops officially gained control of Baton Rouge and established a small fort on the Mississippi River there. However, since 1719, soldiers and white explorers had been buried near Native American mounds. Baton...
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ReadingReading about Reading's long history and influence in industry.The town that began its life as Lynn Village in 1639, Reading has seen many changes during its 375-year history. Its initial settlement in the woods, Wood End, became a village of farms with countless stone...
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Legendary Locals of Oak ParkFounded in the 1830s by Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings, an intrepid young couple from Yorkshire, England, the small settlement of Oak Park grew slowly until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Before the ashes had cooled, Oak Park's population boomed as displaced families relocated...
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Legendary Locals of East Aurora, New YorkNestled along the banks of Cazenovia Creek, East Aurora is a cultural center of western New York State that has flourished because of the diverse talents of its people. Native Americans lived in East Aurora for thousands of years before the first settlers came...
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True Myth: Black Vikings of Themiddle AgesWhy is it that encyclopedias assert the Vikings, or Norsemen, landed in parts of North America, yet the Vikings have never been credited with its "discovery"? Historians bestow this honor on Christopher Columbus, who ventured here five hundred years after the Vikings, having never...
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South Dakota DaysSouth Dakota Days is a series of stories about rural Midwest life in the 1930s and 1940s. It is written in the down-to-earth language of the times. Even though life was tough during the never-ending Great Depression, people of South Dakota learned how to...
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Seabee Book, World War Two, BLACK HELL: The Story Of The 133rd Navy Seabees On Iwo Jima February 19,1945This book is a compilation of histories-both personal and general-including all Seabee units that served on Iwo but concentrating primarily on the U.S. Naval 133rd Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) that was part of the 4th MARDIV at Iwo Jima. Numerous stories from individuals and...
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Feminismo Para Mentes InquietasThis book is something I wish I could have read when I was younger. --Roxane Gay, from the foreword of Feminism Is... It didn't just start with #MeToo. Today's feminism is more diverse than ever before and asks all kinds of questions. Combining insightful...
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DK Eyewitness ChicagoDK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago will lead you straight to the best attractions the Windy City has to offer.Visit the Lincoln Park Zoo or the Art Institute of Chicago, shop on Michigan Avenue, enjoy the rides at the Navy Pier funfair, take in the...
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The Story of the Selma Voting Rights Marches in PhotographsThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a momentous victory for civil rights activists, but one major obstacle remained in the path toward equal rights for African Americans: the right to vote. In the South, segregationists prevented African Americans from voting. Civil rights leaders...
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The San Francisco OracleA complete copy of the legendary psychedelic underground newspaper originally published in the Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love The San Francisco Oracle, published in the Haight Ashbury from 1966 to 1968, was one of the most unique and beautiful publications of the...
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