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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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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou GehrigThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a...
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Living among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and StrengthThis is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of...
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Lincoln: The Life and Legacy That Defined a Nation in 100 ObjectsA compelling, fresh perspective on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, as revealed through the unrivaled collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. This meticulously researched book--featuring 100 historically significant artifacts--weaves together expert commentary, poignant anecdotes, and beautiful photographs to bring...
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New MexicoLieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network...
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Let's Count Texas: Numbers and Colors in the Lone Star State1 Brown football scores the final field goal2 Grey Armadillos take a long prairie stroll3 Furry Black Jack Rabbits happily leapt4 Shiny red boots dance the two step Numbers and colors are more fun in Texas! In this dynamic, colorful primer, young readers count...
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Le Corbusier: Le GrandBack in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier - one of the twentieth century's most influential architects'Le Corbusier arguably had more of an influence on the form of the modern world than any other architect... You couldn't...
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Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930sWhen the United States declared war on Spain in 1898, rumors abounded throughout the nation that the Spanish-speaking population of New Mexico secretly sympathized with the enemy. At the end of the war, The New York Times warned that New Mexico's "Mexicans professed a...
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Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life: Facsimile of original 1926 editionIn 1826 a seventeen-year-old Christopher "Kit" Carson ran away from his job as apprentice to a saddler in Franklin, Missouri and joined a merchant caravan bound for Santa Fe in the far Southwest. The flight marked his entry into the pages of history. In...
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Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela JafféThe complete interviews that served as the basis for Jung's bestselling memoir Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsFeatures a significant amount of material withheld from the original bookNewly translated and thoroughly annotated by world-renowned Jung expert Sonu Shamdasani In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G....
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Journey with Jessie from Chicago to GhanaIn Journey with Jessie from Chicago to Ghana children will travel on a captivation adventure of discovery, family, and connection back to Jessie's roots. Join her as she explores the history, culture, and beauty of West Africa!Author: Jessica NewmanPublisher: Books & Things PublishingPublished: 11/04/2025Pages:...
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John Stark of Rogers' Rangers: a Famous Ranger and His Associates During the French & Indian War: The Life of General John Stark of New Hampshire by HThe early military career of a great American soldier and patriotStudents of the history of the American War of Independence will be familiar with Major-General John Stark of the Continental Army who served at Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton and notably at Bennington, 1777. However,...
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from...
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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese FoodChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For...
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in AnthropologyTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century. The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in distant parts of the world where ladies were not meant to travel....
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Into the Night: A Jailbreak and Double Homicide on Maryland's Eastern ShoreOn Sunday, December 8th, 1968, Joseph J. Bartholomey, Jr., a 21-year-old troubled delinquent from Baltimore, sat in the Wicomico County Jail in Salisbury, Maryland. Armed and dangerous, he was plotting his escape, but two men stood in his way: the jailer, Albert L. Kelly,...
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's EndWhen the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers could not call his death a death, nor could they refer to him by his proper name. To do so would have exposed them to terrorism from the vigilante right wing. But this insightful book...
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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam CyclistPete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history...
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In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and RevolutionFrom acclaimed historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes a captivating new biography of Teddy Roosevelt, exploring the life of America's 26th president and his pivotal role in shaping the dawn of the American...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. ChestertonEssayist G.K. Chesterton was a master. However, reading his essays is more than just an exercise in studying literature at its best; it is also a chance to come across universal truths that still ring true today.Chesterton's essays are only problematic in that there...
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"A remarkable new history" (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame--and what we can learn from its embers From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in...
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