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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Captain Scott's Scrapbook: Mutinies, Mining and MysteriesAmongst the family albums her mother had kept, Margot Dixon found something very curious-Captain Samuel F. Scott's old scrapbook. Who was this man? And why did her family have his scrapbook? As she read through the book, full of one-of-a-kind documents, she soon realized...
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native LandA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights...
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Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a BoroughMeet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation's third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life--businesswomen, church leaders, laborers,...
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Braving the Minnesota WildernessBraving the Minnesota Wilderness The journey of the Soderberg family from Sweden to early Sandstone and the Gunflint Trail.A saga of one Swedish immigrant family that so loved the beauty and adventure of the Minnesota wilderness that they were willing to risk its dangers...
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Boone CountyBoone County, an enlightening new volume of vintage images, recaptures the early days of a quiet, conservative community dedicated to the joys and responsibilities of their faith, their families, and farming their land. Comprised of more than 200 images, most of which were contributed...
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist CrusadeHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade--and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay...
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Blue Book Volume 2: 1947From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers comes this ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye...
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Big Apple Baseball Wars: New York's 14 Subway SeriesThe 1950s clashes between the Yankees and Dodgers put New York at the center of the baseball universe. But the history of Subway Series extends way beyond those classic October battles. No fewer than 14 times have the top AL and NL teams hailed...
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Beyond the Devil's Road: Francisco Garc?s and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest Volume 8The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the...
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener"Literary Legend" (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters.In the concluding act of this "incomparable" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new tale...
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Ballpark Legends: The Legacy of the Negro LeaguesMajor League Baseball (MLB) is a diverse sport played by athletes from around the world. But in the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, MLB was mostly segregated. Black players and coaches were not welcome. The Negro Leagues gave these players...
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Badlands National ParkAuthor: Nate FrischPublisher: Creative EducationPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781640268647Audience: 08 - 12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8Point Value: 1Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 176073 / Badlands National Park
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Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Persian ArtIn Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, fourteen scholars explore the legacy of Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) by tracing the formation of Persian art scholarship and connoisseurship during the twentieth century. Widely considered as a self-made scholar, curator, and entrepreneur,...
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A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious FreedomA new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution--fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown--and in defining the republic that was created from it. As the...
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A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in AmericaUsing original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history...
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An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri ManuscriptAn Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods is the first comprehensive comparison of two of the greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quich? Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru's lower Andean regions. The rebellious...
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Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections"Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand American politics in 2024." --Heather Cox Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of Democracy AwakeningEqual parts Dark Money and Democracy in Chains, Antidemocratic is a riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year...
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An Image of My Name Enters America: EssaysFrom a "brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro" (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and criticism Again, today, if I must choose between love and memory, I choose memory. What would you risk to know yourself? Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter...
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Angela Harding: Rathlin Hares Artisan Art Notebook (Flame Tree Journals)New title in the colourful Artisan Art Notebook collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, crafted with decorated edges and featuring beautiful art on the cover. Artisan Art Notebooks, the new Journals from Flame...
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Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred YearsHow, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to...
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