History
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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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black FeminismA reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like--from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue. "Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar. In...
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Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in GazaFox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify the scope and magnitude of this latest and most dramatic outbreak in one of...
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and WarningNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust--conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn't be more right about our world."--The New Republic A "gripping [and] disturbingly vivid" (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the...
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Black Artists in Their Own WordsThe first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art. What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored....
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Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance TodayhBirth of a White Nation is a fascinating book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people," as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The...
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Bhagavad Gita"[It] will remain the standard text of this marvelous Song for years to come, if indeed it is ever superseded."--Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions Graham M. Schweig's translation of the Bhagavad Gita--the "Bible of India"--is an elegant, highly accessible version of one...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our OwnNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies...
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of WarThe era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons...
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of LightA collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women's fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig--edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of...
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Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeWinner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about...
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An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored ChildrenA unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world. In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the...
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Ancient Athens: Five Intriguing Lives: Socrates, Pericles, Aspasia, Peisistratos & AlcibiadesWe tend to take democracy, philosophy, theatre and the beautiful buildings of Athens for granted, as if they were always going to happen. But in reality, five determined people had an overwhelming impact on making those things come about. And the rich details of...
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten CrisisNational Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the...
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American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the JewsA major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives--and his legacy A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at...
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All But My Life: A MemoirAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to...
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All Aboard! Great LakesLearn all about the Great Lakes region with the newest adorable All Aboard book.Hop on board and explore the amazing Great Lakes, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and interesting places along the way such as Niagara Falls, Mackinac Island, Cave Point, and Chicago....
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A Little History of ScienceA spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been...
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A Little History of ReligionA rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die, is...
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New Republic A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan...
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Alamo All-Stars: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #6): A Texas TaleLearn the thrilling true story of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo in author-illustrator Nathan Hale's Alamo All-Stars, a Hazardous Tale from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series! "These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody,...
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