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The Enlightenment: A Beginner's GuideBlamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it...
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Absaraka, Home of the Crows: A Military Wife's Journal Retelling Life on the Plains and Red Cloud's WarThe classic journal and firsthand account of one of the most disastrous military battles of the American frontier. On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks....
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Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the PlainsAuthor: John C. CremonyPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 02/17/2015Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10dISBN: 9781629143705About the AuthorJohn C. Cremony was an American newspaperman who also served as a lieutenant in the Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry. He fought in the Mexican-American War, the...
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Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountainvolume 5On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near the White Sands of New Mexico. The governor called in both the Pinkerton Agency and Pat Garrett, killer of Billy the Kid, to investigate....
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Heart of the Trail: Stories of Covered Wagon WomenUpdated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary-the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American frontier by wagon during the...
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Because Our Fathers Lied: Death and Deception Afloat and AshoreTruth is the first casualty of war. Tom Carpentier knew this well. A WW-II destroyer commander, he had spent years as skipper of merchant vessels carrying war materials to Vietnam. But when his daughter, a Navy nurse, died under mysterious circumstances in Danang in...
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Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the WorldOn the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today. In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the...
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In the Grip of the Whirlwind: The Armistice Day Storm of 1940Author Tom Powers presents a book filled with incredible stories of great courage, narrow escapes, tragedy, faith, odd twists of fate, and the dogged perseverance of those who were caught in the hurricane-like storm that ripped through the upper Midwest. From lonely motorists in...
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The Zulu War: Through Contemporary Eyes"March slowly, attack at dawn and eat up the red soldiers." King Cetewayo, Battle of Isandhlwana 1879 Written in 1894, just 15 years after the war, this is James Grant's excellent military history of the Zulu War of 1879. From the British disaster at...
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The Carnage Was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862In early August 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight--one that would also turn out to be his last independent command.Near the base of Cedar Mountain, in the midst of a...
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The Lost LibraryBorn in Berlin at the end of the nineteenth century, Walter Mehring inherited both his father's respect for the civilizing power of literature and his formidable library of thousands of books. Like his father, believed that books and reading were essential to progress, mutual...
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The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of YorkThe story of the Princes in the Tower is one of history's most enduring, poignant and romanticised tales. But were the princes really murdered? David Baldwin presents a fresh new approach to the mystery and reveals, for the first time, the true fate of...
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The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and CultureUntil the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But...
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Oswald in New Orleans: A Case for Conspiracy with the CIAHarold Weisberg was foremost among the early trailblazers who saw the inadequacy of the Warren Report's solution to the crime of the century. He tirelessly petitioned the government and used the courts to force release of withheld documents, and wrote dozens of books and...
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If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War IIFor fans of Man in the High Castle and other tales of alternative history, explosive, thought-provoking "what-if" stories about Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Hitler, the Battle of Britain, and more What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939? What if the Allies had...
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass KillerHarold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first--and worst--mass murders in American history.In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary...
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Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World OrderFrom Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this...
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Orphan Trains to Missouri: Volume 1As an "orphan train" crossed the country, it left part of its cargo at each stop, a few children in one small town and a few in another. Even though farmers needed many hands for labor, most of the small farm communities could not...
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Red Cloud: Oglala LegendAuthor: John D. McDermott, McDermott D. JohnPublisher: South Dakota State Historical SocietyPublished: 06/19/2015Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.16h x 4.53w x 0.27dISBN: 9781941813027This title is only available via back order
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The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the WorldIn the mid-1860s, grapevines in southeastern France inexplicably began to wither and die. Jules- mile Planchon, a botanist from Montpellier, was sent to investigate. He discovered that the vine roots were covered in microscopic yellow insects. What they were and where they had come...
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