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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Earth's Earliest Ages, And Their Lessons For Us: Including A Treatise On SpiritualismIn this fascinating work of biblical exegesis, George Hawkins Pember offers a compelling interpretation of the first few chapters of Genesis. He argues that the biblical account of creation provides important insights into the nature of God, the purpose of humanity, and the spiritual...
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Early Settlers of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. (Volume #1)By: Katherine B. Elliott, Pub. 1964, reprinted 2017, 216 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-379-8.This book contains such things as land grants in Mecklenburg County, early Brunswick and Lunenburg County Deeds, Tithables lists of 1748 and 1752, land procession 1759, St. James' parish Tithables...
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Durch Ukraine und KrimThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Dueling Photographers: George Dureau and Robert MapplethorpeThis essential art history by eyewitness-participant Fritscher examines one of 20-century art's great questions of influence and mentorship - George Dureau to Robert Mapplethorpe- two icons colliding around race, primacy, and originality. In lively transcripts, beloved New Orleans painter-photographer-sculptor Dureau holds court on life,...
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Douglas Lake Ranch: Empire of GrassExplore the rich history of Canada's largest ranch. Douglas Lake is the largest ranch in Canada, encompassing over one million acres of BC's south-central interior, and thousands of people have worked there since it was founded in the mid 1880s. Douglas Lake now includes...
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the WorldFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.In the early 1800s the world was a safe and...
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Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre DameArchitect and theorist Eug ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79), a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival, was active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the cleansing and restoration of the Cathedral...
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Deepest Diver: U.S.S. Chopper (Ss-342)Dr. Neil Cabe, a retired clinical counselor, has written on many subjects. His own history includes four years in the U.S. Submarine Service, including the story told here of an unimaginable dive on his first submarine. It could easily have been his last.Author: Neil...
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Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians who lived through Fascism and the HolocaustIt takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny. Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust. Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order during the chaotic post World War I period. But in...
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Dacia: The Roman Wars: Volume I - SarmizegetusaBesides the unusually rich illustrations (over 190 colored images: illustrations, artifacts, maps, monuments), this book offers a fresh view on the Dacian-Roman wars, eliminating as much as possible from the ideological nationalist ballast that came to burden the Romanian view of history. Radu Oltean...
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Curious about BombersAuthor: Rachel GrackPublisher: Amicus LearningPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 24Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.10w x 0.30dISBN: 9781645493136Audience: Ages 9-12
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Culper Spy Ring: A History from Beginning to EndDiscover the remarkable history of the Culper Spy Ring...Messages written in secret codes or invisible ink, agents operating behind enemy lines and known only by code names, the provision of vital secret intelligence used to direct military operations-these are staple elements of modern spy...
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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban...
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Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New WorldChristopher Fennell offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. He also explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans. Focusing on...
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Computers: The Life Story of a TechnologyA great technological and scientific innovation of the last half of the twentieth century, the computer has revolutionized how we organize information, how we communicate with each other, and even the way we think about the human mind. Computers have eased the drudgery of...
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Common SenseIn January of 1776 Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One...
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Colonial America: A History in DocumentsBy examining the lives of the colonists through their own words--in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems--Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition reveals how immigrants, despite their vast differences, laid the foundations for a new nation: the United States. One of...
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Code Name: Spike: The Dawn of the Cold War, CIA & U.S. Army Special ForcesCODE NAME: SPIKEDiscover the stunning true story of secret-agent Steven Bizic and the men of SPIKE team as they descend into darkness, landing amidst the turmoil of a nation torn apart by civil war and years of Nazi occupation. Facing the looming threat from...
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the MidwestHousewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A....
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City of Light: The Story of Fiber OpticsCity of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a...
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