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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Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved Blue Babies and Changed Medicine Forever"Murphy's dramatic nonfiction narrative recounting of one of the first open heart surgeries ever performed is not to be missed." --School Library Journal (starred review)In 1944, a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the...
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Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book." --Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys....
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Serving Victoria"A vivid, entertaining and often comical portrait of life at court." --Wall Street Journal"Compelling. . . . The rhythm of court life at Windsor or Balmoral is the backdrop to a rich human drama, a story of people existing in uneasy intimacy with the...
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Take Me Home"A riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful artistry and empathy." --Ron Rash, author of Serena and One Foot in Eden"Leung's writing is exquisite, deceptively plain, deeply felt and spiritually high,...
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Kennedy: The Classic Biography"A brilliant and essential document about the man, the President, and his times. In all the millions of words which have been written about the martyred President, this book must remain unique. . . . It is John F. Kennedy's life, his personality, his...
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire"A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain's first Elizabeth." --Seattle TimesAn illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant-adventurers who terrorized the seas, extended the Empire, and amassed great wealth for the throne.Extravagant, whimsical, and...
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The Souls of Black Folk: Introduction by Arnold RampersadThe Souls of Black Folk is both a groundbreaking work of sociology and an influential cornerstone of African-American literature. From the moment it was published in 1903, this unique and stirring blend of history, essay, fiction, and memoir set the terms of the conversation...
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CrusaderThe Crusader tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director during Iran-Contra, pundit, and bestselling author. Buchanan is one of America's most controversial conservative rebels. After serving Nixon and Reagan, he led a revolt...
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Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under StalinRevolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary, like other...
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Indiana: An Interpretation--Indiana Bicentennial EditionIndiana: An Interpretation is arguably the best single book about Indiana. Originally published in 1947, John Bartlow Martin's work sparked controversy in Indiana for challenging Hoosiers' assumptions about their history and how they saw themselves and their state. Although the book only covers the...
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Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European...
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Many a Midnight Ship: True Stories of Great Lakes ShipwrecksMany a Midnight Ship brings to life the powerful history of the greatest northern waterway of the North American continent. These fourteen stories illustrate the majesty of the Great Lakes and the tragedy bestowed upon its waters. From the coffin ship Atlantic, which foundered...
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Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940sGarden of the East opens the door to a time of change in Indonesia in the century before independence from Dutch colonial interests. It takes the journey from the beginnings of photography in the region in the 1850s, which were driven by colonial interests,...
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early AmericaFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier--the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans....
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Encounters with LutherEncounters with Luther offers in one volume original primary research from an international and ecumenical pool of scholars. It examines Luther and Lutheran theological traditions along with their historical foundations and with a focus on relevant contemporary issues and ecumenical collegiality. Topics range from...
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Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth CenturyBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation...
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A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second EditionA Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains...
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A Copious Fountain: A History of Union Presbyterian Seminary, 1812-2012A Copious Fountain tells the two-hundred-year-old story of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. From its first days at Hampden-Sydney College, Union Presbyterian Seminary has answered its call to equip educated ministers to serve the church. As the first institution of its kind in...
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Every Sun That Rises: Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake"What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put 'em both together." Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman,...
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The Richest and Most Famous Private Chef in the World Joseph Donon: Gilded Age Dining with Florence Vanderbilt TwomblyThe New Yorker called him, "probably the richest and most famous private chef in the world," and there is every reason to believe that Mrs. Twombly's beloved French chef, Joseph Donon, was just that. ... In retirement he realized how extraordinary had been what...
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