Historical
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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
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
$20.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0743264673
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Bread on My Mother’s Table: A Danube Swabian Remembers
$16.95 Add to cartCan the world accept ethnic Germans as victims of World War II? Are there similarities in the Holocausts that the Jews and the ethnic Germans suffered? Will Germans always be perceived as stereotypica… [more below]
- Author: Andor, Ingrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0595466729
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the po
- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0547336047
- Language: English
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
$43.68 Add to cart“King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history.”–The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary fi- Author: Nelson, Janet L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 520314204
- Language: English
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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
$24.99 Add to cartOleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. … [more below]
- Author: Kalugin, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0465014453
- Language: English
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The Way of Duty
$25.99 Add to cartThe Buels have used a rich trove of documents to tell the story of a Connecticut woman, Mary Fish Silliman (1736-1818), whose adventures illuminate the day-to-day realities of living through the Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Buel, Joy Day
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312100
- Language: English
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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
$29.99 Add to cartGeneral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South’s first victory–Manassas in July 1861–and at its last–Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered h… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311309
- Language: English
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
$21.99 Add to cartIn this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny — both British and American. Remembere… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820463
- Language: English
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Einstein: The Man and His Mind
$70.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented visual biography of the iconic pioneer of modern physics, with signed photographs, letters, manuscripts and more
A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of
- Author: Berger, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087845
- Language: English
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From Behind the Screen: How a Brash Young Man from Jim Crow New Orleans Became a Civil Rights Leader in Texas
$23.50 Read moreIt was into the native creole culture of New Orleans and Louisiana that Curtis Graves was born. This is unique mixture of former slaves, free people of color, American Indians and Europeans – all in j… [more below]
- Author: Graves, Curtis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0935437614
- Language: English
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Glenn Miller Declassified
$29.95 Add to cartOn December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere ove
- Author: Spragg, Dennis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123083
- Language: English
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Woman Of Many Names
$27.99 Add to cartWoman of Many Names is a deeper look into a woman who helped shaped the history of our Nation. Nancy Ward had ties to Daniel Boone and George Washington, including having saved the latter’s life (and,
- Author: Yates, Debra S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1943496080
- Language: English
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Abigail Adams: A Life
$22.99 Add to cartIn this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time in a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story a
- Author: Holton, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546812
- Language: English
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William and Jean Herrick, Pioneering New Mexicans: The Herrick Family in Words and Photographs, Early 1900s New Mexico
$26.95 Add to cart“Over one hundred years ago to get from Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Mount Vernon, Ohio, to New Mexico, you had to walk, ride or drive a team of horses or board a train.” So opens thi
- Author: Spiller, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1632933713
- Language: English
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Monkey Boulevard
$16.99 Add to cartAs displaced persons after World War II, the Piech Family chose not to return to their home in Poland, but continued from an army camp in Italy, to a Polish Dependents camp in England, finally immigra
- Author: Hikel, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988417118
- Language: English
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Lee
$23.00 Add to cartDouglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and hi… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684829533
- Language: English
