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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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Tangled Journeys: One Family's Story and the Making of American HistoryIn 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore nine of his children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1857, Cogdell and his...
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Tangled Journeys: One Family's Story and the Making of American HistoryIn 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore nine of his children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1857, Cogdell and his...
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Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by HistoryA piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson's account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past. "A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn't stop reading."...
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Tai HerbalismAround the globe, an age-old truth persists: "To annihilate my culture and identity, you must first destroy my language and writing." Whether through deliberate political policies or sheer neglect, minority communities teeter on the precipice of losing or have already lost their languages and...
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St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of WestminsterTraces the history of a magnificent landmark in the history of late medieval art and architecture. As the principal royal chapel in the medieval Palace of Westminster, St Stephen's was at the centre of worship for the Plantagenets, a major collegiate foundation of a...
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Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South CarolinaThe battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg High School as one of thirteen Black students selected to integrate the all-White...
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Storm on Horseback: The Seljuk Warriors of TurkeyWho are the Turks and where did they come from? The successive empires that they created in a whirlwind of conquests from China to North Africa led one chronicler to call the waves of mounted Turkic warriors a 'storm on horseback.' This is the...
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Stories Told in Stone: Cemetery IconologySTORIES TOLD IN STONE: Cemetery Iconology is subtitled 'A Manual for Genealogy Research' for many reasons. From graveyard to cemetery, author and certified genealogist Gaylord Cooper explains definitions, symbols and sources beneficial in the study of genealogy, culture and history. Readers of many backgrounds...
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St. Louis Hills: A Walk Through HistoryAuthor: Nini HarrisPublisher: Reedy PressPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781681065625
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St. Augustine and the Civil WarWhen Florida seceded from the Union in 1861, St. Augustine followed much of the South and widely supported the Confederacy. Many residents rushed to join the Confederate army. Union forces, however, quickly seized the lightly protected town and used it as a rest area...
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Spark of Independence: The American Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1775-1776This book, like the two that preceded it on the Middle and Southern colonies, seeks to answer one simple question. What happened in the thirteen colonies after bloodshed erupted at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until independence was declared in July 1776? For...
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Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European CountryAn incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress...
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Soviet Factography: Reality Without RealismA study of Soviet factography, an avant-garde movement that employed photography, film, journalism, and mass media technologies. This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures,...
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Socialism, Utopian and ScientificSocialism, Utopian and Scientific, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...
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Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slaves in this process. Examining the intersection of post-slavery and evangelism, this book shows the ways that former slaves from a...
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Simplified Cooking From The 1930s With Pictures: The Era Of The Great Depression Recipes for Tenacity and Grit Made EasyStep back in time with this nostalgic cookbook, "Simplified Cooking From The 1930s With Pictures: The Era Of The Great Depression Recipes for Tenacity and Grit Made Easy." This unique culinary guide takes you on a culinary journey to the era of the Great...
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Silence: A Christian HistoryA provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause...
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Shipwrecks of the San Juans: A History of Maritime Disaster in the San Juan IslandsAuthor: Joseph ReigelPublisher: Orcas Island History PressPublished: 09/08/2024Pages: 174Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.47dISBN: 9798218490942
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Shiicada: Caqiidadeeda iyo Sooyaalkeedii Geeska AfrikaOgaanshaha taariikhda iyo caqiidada shiicadu waxay noqdeen xilliyadan dambe lama huraan marka la eego aqoonta yar ee ay ummadda Muslimka ahi u leedahay, gaar ahaan bulshweynta Soomaaliyeed. Sidoo kale, faafitaanka xawliga ku socda ee caqiidada iyo siyaasadda Shiicada, kuwaasoo ku fidaya xoog iyo xeelba,...
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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor,...
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