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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The Right to Work: The Story of the Non-Striking Miners"At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with...
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The Rif War 1921-26: Morocco's Berber UprisingAn illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco. In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Morocco,...
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved AmericaTimed for the 250th anniversary of one of America's most famous founding events: Paul Revere's legendary ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the myth that every American learns in schoolOn April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political...
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The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light BrigadeThis history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's Battle...
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The Quest of the Historical Muhammad and Other Studies on Formative IslamThe lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches,...
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The Queen Isabella Causeway CollapseIn the days after 9/11, the country was on high alert. So when an alarming incident occurred just off the Texas coast on the early morning hours of September 15th, authorities immediately assumed another terrorist attack had taken place. A towing vessel collided into...
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The Puzzler's Guide to California: Games, Jokes, Fun Facts & Trivia about the Golden StateWith several types of puzzles to delight curious minds, The Puzzler's Guide to California is one part puzzle book, one part natural history guide--and lots and lots of fun!Visit the beautiful golden state of California! Grab a pencil as you play all kinds of...
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The Psalms in English 1530-1633Translations of the Psalms were a major feature of early modern English literature. Yet this vast body of translation work has never before been presented as such, or in such depth. This collection brings together over a century of English biblical translation, by a...
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The Post-Soviet Human: Philosophical Reflections on Social History After the End of CommunismThe post-Soviet period (1989-2022) was, in its own way, an unprecedented era in human history. Its uniqueness lied not only in the fact that the USSR's dissolution had opened opportunities for the people and nations of Eastern Europe and northern Eurasia to experience freedom...
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to SwimIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about...
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The Plaza: First and AlwaysIn the beginning, it was a hog farm. A cow pasture. A trash dump and it was located so far south -- 50 city blocks -- that downtown Kansas City merchants would not deliver goods to the area. In the mind's eye of young...
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The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine HistoryThe dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded...
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The Origins of the New TestamentSometime around 180 AD, a biblical canon became necessary for the survival of the Church. Serious Gnostic threats already had gospels of their own, including Marcion, Valentinus, and Basilides. Alfred Loisy shows how the Canon was put together and how it evolved from there....
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The North Carolina Flood: July 14, 15, 16, 1916Picture this: It's 1916, you live in Western North Carolina, the 1st World War is still raging, and it's been raining heavily for ten days. You and your family have to leave your home to seek higher ground because the rain is not stopping....
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The Nomads Of The Badlands: Continuing the Wilhelm's Adventures Prospecting the Mojave Deserts of Arizona, Nevada, and California in 1915With Nomads Of The Badlands: Walt continues the autobiographical family story he started in Last Rig To Battle Mountain. 'Nomads' is filled with tales and details vital to a meaningful understanding of the people, places and times that were the Mohave and Mojave Deserts...
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The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested MeaningsConsidered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks--the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one...
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The Nazis: The Rise and Fall of History's Most Evil EmpireThis book traces the history of the Third Reich, from the Nazi movement's beginnings in the beer halls of 1920s Germany to the outcome of the Nuremberg trials, which took place in the aftermath of the Second World War. Masters of manipulation, double standards,...
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The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War GeneralsLong overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue...
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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval ManuscriptsA fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious figures, and scholars sought to harness supernatural power. They tried...
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The Legacy of Billy Lee: An American HeroThis is a story about the life and times of William "Billy" Lee. This is the story of an American hero.William "Billy" Lee was filled with concern as he walked up the lane with his brother to their new home at the Mount Vernon...
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