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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A Tramp in Berlin: New Mark Twain Stories & an Account of His Adventures in the German Capital During the Belle Epoque of 1891-1892 (ColoAuthor: Mark Twain, Andreas AustilatPublisher: BerlinicaPublished: 06/15/2013Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63dISBN: 9781935902928About the AuthorLapham, Lewis: - Lewis H. Lapham, born 1935, is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981,...
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Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement: 1944-1968Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a...
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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and FaithIn the heartland of the United States 150 years ago, where racism and hatred were common, a community decided there could be a different America. Here schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites intermarried, and power and wealth were shared by both...
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National ParkThis epic history of America's first national park explores how a remote Western landscape became an iconic symbol of our country and its vast wilderness so influential to our understanding of the natural world It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel...
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Antonio Gaudí: Master ArchitectIn this enlightening, portable volume, a concise, knowledgeable text by the director of the Catedra Gaudí at the University of Barcelona is brilliantly illustrated with 200 images by a gifted architectural photographer to provide a new perspective on Gaudí's remarkable career. The author traces...
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An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the Greek World: A Detailed Study of the Fighting Men of Classical Greece and the Ancient World, IncludingAn incredible visual reference of the fighting men of Ancient Greece and their neighbours and enemies in the Ancient World. The book offers a concise overview of the history of the period, the rise and fall of Alexander and Darius' empires, the battles, campaigns,...
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A new Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: ... And a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro'The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of BooksA revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius--the father of modern anatomy--as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While...
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Ancient History Vol. 1: An Enthralling Guide to Mesopotamia, Egypt, and RomeThree manuscripts in one book: Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian History, Starting from the Settlement of the Nile Valley through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the Death of Cleopatra VII Ancient Rome: An Enthralling Overview of Roman History, Starting From...
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Ancient Egypt: Quicknotes- QuickNotes, 20 full color notecards, 5 each of 4 designs, 20 classic white envelopes in a keepsake box with magnetic closureOur Albert Racinet Ancient Egypt art is a nod to vintage art and design that helped influence Art Deco of the early 20th...
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An Accidental Jewel Wisconsin's Turtle-Flambeau FlowageAuthor: Michael HittlePublisher: Little Creek PressPublished: 10/15/2020Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07dISBN: 9781942586319About the AuthorMichael Hittle is a retired history professor from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. During his 35 years on the faculty--including eight as dean of the faculty--he taught...
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American Revolutions in the Digital AgeThe interdisciplinary essays in American Revolutions in the Digital Age explore what digital tools can tell us about the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States and reveal how an understanding of the American past can make sense of our digital present. By employing...
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American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote DisinformationDonald Jeffries takes another deep dive down the historical rabbit holes with American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote Disinformation. You will discover how cancel culture was born during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. And how our interventionist foreign policy was established...
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American Colonists Sign the Declaration of IndependenceThe United States is a young country founded on complicated ideals--ones that it still strives to fulfill. Many of those ideals were established in the 1776 Declaration of Independence--when colonists decided to separate from Great Britain. With historical images and details about key events...
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A Mad Dog in Vietnam: Medal of Honor Recipient David Charles Dolby's Five Combat ToursThis is the incredible story of David Charles "Mad Dog" Dolby and fierce firefight in Vietnam in 1966 that would see him awarded the Medal of Honor. As exceptional a feat as that was, Dolby would return to Vietnam for four additional tours. In...
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War: Second Edition With Discussion GuideIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown's raiders to die at Harpers Ferry in their bid to end slavery-unconsciously chose whiteness, unaware that she...
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Alpine Witchery: Austrian Folk Magic, Lore, & SpellcraftEmbark on a captivating journey into the mystical world of Alpine witches through this collection of authentic spells from the Austrian witch trials. With this spellbook, you can explore dozens of translated incantations from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries alongside details captured in court...
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Aloha and the GospelWhat happened in Hawaii in the wake of ships arriving at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Who were the key actors in the revolution in Hawaiian life. This book relies on those who were there to tell...
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All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their MoneyA journey through the personal money stories of the US presidents and how they built wealth--or didn't. Was Harry Truman really our poorest president or simply a man up at 2 a.m. struggling with financial anxiety? Did Calvin Coolidge get bad advice from his...
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A Little History of PhotographyBenjamin's early attempt to understand a nascent technology, remarkably prescient and topical even today"The illiterate of the future ... will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph." So declared Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) in his...
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