Historical
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Constantine the Emperor
$28.99 Add to cartNo Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along … [more below]
- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190231629
- Language: English
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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less
- Author: Rosen, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062297112
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$17.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
$39.95 Add to cartFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology a… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
- Author: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496216911
- Language: English
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The Trials of Annie Oakley
$31.58 Add to cartLong before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of “America’s
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063774
- Language: English
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Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death
$28.99 Add to cartUnearthing the network that hid the “Angel of Death,” the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades.
In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kinder
- Author: Anton, Betina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768829
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler of a vast empire–from one of the world’s foremost scho… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400079195
- Language: English
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Unshackled: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartNo child should have to grow up and become an adult and still be tortured by the trauma of their past. For years, even into my adulthood, I was constantly dealing with my past–the hurt, the dysfuncti
- Author: Ivey, Horace Leon, Sr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: June 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891126084
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thir… [more below]
- Author: Yi, Henry Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1602397325
- Language: English
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Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
$16.95 Add to cartA biographical study of Patrick Henry, whose “”Give me liberty of give me death”” speech in 1775 at the second Virginia Convention has inspired since than all who treasure freedom. This book goes beyo… [more below]
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Vaughan, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1581823231
- Language: English
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James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price
$15.95 Add to cartJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family’s Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1577363329
- Language: English
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Agatha Tiegel Hanson: Our Places in the Sun
$29.95 Add to cartAgatha Tiegel Hanson (1873-1959) is regarded as a seminal figure in Deaf history for her writing, advocacy, and leadership, though her accomplishments merit recognition within the larger context of Am
- Author: Jankowski, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: August 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1954622155
- Language: English
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When the Rivers Flowed
$18.95 Add to cartSet in the early twentieth century, this riveting tale follows Marie Little and Earl Layman, who left different parts of Appalachia to better themselves in Knoxville, Tennessee. It explores events cen… [more below]
- Author: Mascaro, Marilyn Layman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146173
- Language: English
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One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time
$17.95 Add to cartA time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page.
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways an- Author: Marchant, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914613554
- Language: English
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The Sleeping Lady
$11.99 Add to cartGazing across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, Alaska, people have imagined that the sprawling peak across the inlet is a slumbering woman. Out of this idyllic landscape, has come a tale about a time of pea… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0882404954
- Language: English
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- Language: English
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Tejano Tiger: Jose de Los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
$29.95 Add to cartRiding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benav… [more below]
- Series: Texas Biography
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: February 24 2017
- ISBN10: 087565407X
- Language: English
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Constantine the Great: And the Christian Revolution
$23.95 Add to cartRevered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story of Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire.
- Author: Baker, G. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411588
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Survival in the Killing Fields
$25.99 Add to cartNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am,” says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he… [more below]
- Author: Ngor, Haing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0786713151
- Language: English
