History
Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Les Miserables (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2Experience Victor Hugo's classic tale of love, tragedy, and redemption in this gorgeously illustrated manga adaptation by mangaka Takahiro Arai (Cirque Du Freak: The Manga, Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time)! Jean Valjean, a starving man who commits an act that will haunt him for...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle EastNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A New York Times Notable Book - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography - From the author of King of Kings comes a thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in...
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a NationChronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country. Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of...
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Know the TheologiansFinalist for the 2025 Christianity Today Book Award in Popular TheologyKnow the Theologians is an introduction to the most important thinkers throughout church history and a demonstration of their ongoing relevance for believers today.The Bible describes the church as a kind of family. Those...
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KlimtThe unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate...
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KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Imitation Leather, Blue, Red Letter EditionCommemorate a special accomplishment or event with a gift to be treasured for years to come. This edition is published in KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.Featuring the beautiful and trustworthy...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New...
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted ManThe New York Times bestseller Kill Bin Laden is an explosive first-hand account of a Delta Force commando's hunt for the world's most wanted man. The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for AllDiscover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography. After 232 years and 115 appointments, Ketanji...
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Kent State: Four Dead in OhioFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers...
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Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency PeriodsAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen's beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all...
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration SeriesLawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North...
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination."--Wall...
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military HistoryA New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. For thirty-five years, Max...
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I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to NowA critical and celebratory counternarrative to what we know of Japanese photography today. I'm So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of...
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and ReligionWhen the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur,...
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If You Were a Kid at the Declaration of Independence (1776)What was it like to be a kid when the Declaration of Independence was signed?In 1776, the Revolutionary War was raging in America. A group of colonial leaders met to write and approve the Declaration of Independence. This document officially declared America's independence from...
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." -Publishers WeeklyGeorge Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home....
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Hurricane Katrina (a True Book: Disasters)Explore the events of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it caused in New Orleans, the global efforts to help the victims, and the rebuilding efforts.A True Book: Natural Disasters series investigates the events leading up to a disaster, explores the causes, and ponders how...
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How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's RiggedA breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones's viral video "How Can We Win" "So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and...
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