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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Virginia First: The 1607 ProjectAuthor: Abbeville InstitutePublisher: Abbeville Institute, Ltd.Published: 06/15/2024Pages: 334Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781733407588
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Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our DemocracyFor readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the history of the GOP's hidden political strategy to rollback protected rights, from abortion and gun control to surveillance and LGBTQ rights. Virginia's governor sets up a tip line for parents to snitch on...
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Views of Haarlem: The City Depicted in the Seventeenth CenturyAuthor: Norbert Middelkoop, Alexander BruinPublisher: Uitgeverij Waanders & de KunstPublished: 07/26/2024Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9789462625020This title is only available via back order
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Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar CityIn Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that relies on antisemitism, philosemitism,...
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Usborne Book and Jigsaw Dinosaur TimelineDiscover the amazing age of dinosaurs with this 300-piece jigsaw and fold-out dinosaur timeline. A sturdy gift box contains a stylishly-illustrated jigsaw showing a selection of dinosaurs - all with their names and when they lived. The richly detailed, fold-out timeline charts dinosaurs from...
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Unusual Encounters: Medicine, Shakespeare, and Historical MomentsDiscovering the historic origins of a Hispanic amulet to prevent disease, analyzing scientific discoveries made during dreams, and observing the sudden disappearance of the entire staff of an emergency room one spring evening: these are some of the fascinating accounts in this collection of...
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Untold Paris: The Secret History of the City of LightNobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter - and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly. Let him guide you around the Paris you've always wanted to know. How was Ernest Hemingway received...
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United States High-Altitude Test Experiences: A Review Emphasizing the Impact on the EnvironmentIn a world grappling with the resurgence of nuclear threats and the ongoing exploration of space, this 1976 monograph serves as a vital reminder of the profound impact of human actions on the delicate balance of our planet and the cosmos. It compels us...
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Understanding Naval WarfareThis updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant history. The third edition explains traditional...
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Undergrounds in Insurgent, Revolutionary, and Resistance WarfareThis groundbreaking work, Undergrounds in Insurgent, Revolutionary, and Resistance Warfare, was written in response to the communist insurgency in South Vietnam. It sought to categorize underground movements encountered during the previous 30 years in fine detail so that the establishment and operations of subsequent...
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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and JazzHighlighting Eric Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women, Uncommon People brings back into print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the...
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Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power. This rally--the first of several held at...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes...
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Two Views of Little Round Top: a Pivotal Engagement During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st-3rd, 1863 During the American Civil War-The Attack andDesperate battle for the end of the line and the turn of the flankIn early July of 1863, the opposing armies of the Confederacy and the Union were inexorably drawn together for battle around the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. Initially the tactical advantage...
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Traditions of de-Coo-DahFirst published in 1852, Traditions of DE-COO-DAH is the only remembered work of American writer WILLIAM PIDGEON (1818-c.1870). Today, it is considered an amusing and telling example of the flaws and prejudices found in white researchers of the era, and has been called "a...
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To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper CanadaIn 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening to invade the tiny British colony of Upper Canada. Pierpoint's unique fighting unit would not...
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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United StatesIn a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray...
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Titanic's Unlucky Seven: The Story of the Ill-Fated Liner's OfficersThe disaster which befell RMS Titanic has become one of the most investigated and analyzed maritime tragedies of all time. Yet there is much still to be untangled from the web of mystery which still surrounds this confused, catastrophic event.The people on board were...
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They Slept Upon Their RiflesThe story of the Captain Robert H. Kuykendall family in America and the entry of the family with the Anglo Settlement into Mexican/Texas in Stephen F. Austin's Colony in 1821. - Includes Allied families - Early, Hardin, Moore, Shannon and Swift - Includes the...
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The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman EmpireIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting...
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