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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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted...
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as...
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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot DogsA NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique--comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot...
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Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans HistoryAs seen on Tiktok, Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and trans stories from the ancient world through to lesser-known moments in recent history. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney,...
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Pyramids of Egypt (Unsolved)Discover the unsolved mystery of the pyramids of Egypt in this beautifully illustrated book for kids, accessible for all readers!The pyramids were built as tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs. They are an engineering feat that have puzzled scientists and historians for centuries. How did...
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind"Fascinating."--Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."--Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."--Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the...
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Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More!A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a...
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Profits and PersecutionWhat role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest...
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Poetry Changes Lives: Daily Thoughts on Poetry and HistoryA daily page that provides a historical fact, linked to a well known poem and an inspirational thought or reflection. Poetry and history have always gone well together: history has often been recorded in verse and much poetry has been written about historical events....
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Plato: A Civic LifeNow in paperback, a new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens. Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been...
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived in: Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeThis vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Edith Forbes paints a memorable portrait of American colonial history and of this most legendary...
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Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social HistoryA moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century. The Sunday Times (London) bestseller The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the...
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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape"A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine." --Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine's leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man's wanderings through the landscape he loves--once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls--updated with a new...
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin Kaepernick Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social...
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Origin: A Genetic History of the AmericasAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how...
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On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across BritainA lyrical and insightful narrative that presents a new approach to the idea of pilgrimage, traversing paths both ancient and modern. Retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the 21st...
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On Fascism: 12 Lessons from American HistoryAs featured on NPR's "On Point" "The twelve lessons in On Fascism draws from American history and brilliantly complement those of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny." --Laurence Tribe An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding...
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One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American IdealFrom the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom--and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin...
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One Day on Our Prehistoric Planet... with a T.RexFrom breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with a T. Rex. The newest title in Ella Bailey's One Day on our Prehistoric Planet series, focused on the way baby dinosaurs would spend a day.Author: Ella BaileyPublisher: Flying Eye BooksPublished: 05/20/2025Pages:...
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On China"Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry...
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