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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Historic Tales of Flathead LakeWhen asked about the greatest accomplishment of his 34-year congressional career, Mike Mansfield, one of America's revered political figures, offered a simple reply-- "Saving Flathead Lake." The largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River has centuries of oral and written history. Much like...
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Historic Henderson County: Tales from Along the RidgesBeloved storyteller and chronicler of Henderson County heritage Louise Howe Bailey (1915, 2009) lives on through her edifying anecdotes. This new collection of Bailey's ruminations maintains her work of preserving earlier Henderson County history with its abundant assortment of characters, landmarks and natural wonders....
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Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational StudyAuthor: Henry HakamäkiPublisher: Iskra BooksPublished: 05/29/2024Pages: 274Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75dISBN: 9798869225528This title is not returnable
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Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTCAuthor: Roger VerPublisher: Roger VerPublished: 05/10/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9798989492442
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Hidden History of the Toe River ValleyTales from North Carolina's high country.The Toe River winds its way past the peaks of Mount Mitchell and into the valley that bears its name. Mineral mines go back to the earliest days of Yancey County and encouraged some of the first settlers to...
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Hidden History of Lake ChamplainLake Champlain is one of America's most historic waterways, but much of its history has remained hidden. With the arrival of Europeans, the lake became a vital route between the English in New England and the French in Quebec. Its isolated beauty contrasted sharply...
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Hellenica - A History of My Times: Books I-VII CompleteHellenica/i> is Xenophon's chronicle of the history of the Greeks, or the "Hellenes" from 411 to 359 BCE. It is a continuation of Thucydides' narrative, History of the Peloponnesian War. This history covers the last seven years of the war, and its aftermath. It...
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Hatfield 1677Colonist Benjamin Waite, a devoted husband, father, and skilled military scout in King Philip's War, reluctantly obeys orders to guide a brutal attack against a camp of Algonquian Natives.After the catastrophic event, Benjamin is burdened with guilt and longs for peace. But the Algonquians,...
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Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted KingfisherMore than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not all are fishing birds. They range in size from the African dwarf kingfisher to the laughing kookaburra of Australia. This first book to feature North America's belted kingfisher is a lyrical...
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Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, FloridaFrom the critically acclaimed author dubbed "one of today's finest practitioners of nonfiction" (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep South.Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with...
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Grand Haven Area: 1860-1960Grand Haven is nestled in wooded dunes and surrounded by the waters of Lake Michigan, Spring Lake, and the Grand River. Under the leadership of Rev. William Montague Ferry, the first settlers arrived from Mackinac Island November 2, 1834. In recognition of the port's...
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Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American RevolutionThe complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand--he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was...
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Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American RevolutionThe complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand--he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was...
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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in AmericaFor readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace M. Cho) of the Genain quadruplets, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences. In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health...
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Gholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived ItGholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived It is Donna Gholson Cook's fourth book. Donna is a sixth-Generation Texan and Great-Granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Gholson. Sam and Frank Gholson were born in the...
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Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political WritingsGhassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) is perhaps the greatest Palestinian novelist whose books, including Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa, documented the horrors of war and occupation. His life deeply inspired his literature as a political thinker, strategist, and revolutionary. Here, his...
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George Eliot: Whole SoulThe girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that...
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Geometry of FireIn 2003, newly minted Private First Class Paul Warmbier left behind the world he knew for something much more complicated. At 17, Paul signed up for a wartime adventure with the Marine Corps infantry, leaving his home in the Idaho mountains for that of...
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From Montana-Around the World and BackAuthor: Timothy Seaman (U S. Navy Veteran)Publisher: Fulton BooksPublished: 04/19/2024Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39dISBN: 9798889827641
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Frommer's Paris 2025Frommer's books aren't written by committee, by AI, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We employ the best local experts to author our guides, like longtime Paris resident Anna E. Brooke. In...
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