Historical
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives–including your own.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing- Author: Hager, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0307351793
- Language: English
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Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine
$22.95 Add to cartOn March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them when
- Author: Bachelder, Jody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750067
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$30.00 Read moreThe true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise o- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1541674197
- Language: English
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Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska
$34.95 Add to cartHospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the p… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlander, Mary F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236181
- Language: English
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A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika
$14.95 Add to cartIn this starkly candid account of one boy’s indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of Nazism that has been little recorded. This autobiographical account is a rare glimpse at World War II… [more below]
- Author: Heck, Alfons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0939650444
- Language: English
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Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
$29.95 Add to cartUnmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South’s most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the Nort
- Author: Carter, Dan T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588384810
- Language: English
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The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam
$18.95 Read moreNgo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian “Mandate of Heaven”, a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Ro
- Author: Shaw, Geoffrey D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1621646130
- Language: English
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The Unlikely Governor
$24.95 Add to cartA true American odyssey, Robert Heller chronicles the journey from his childhood in wartime Germany to the United States and his career that led him to become Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and… [more below]
- Author: Heller, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0996439021
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
$29.95 Add to cartWritten in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent
- Series: World of Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Simon, John Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0809314436
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
$23.95 Add to cart“Fry was the American Schindler…with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes… think] Casablanca.”
–New York Times
Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vash
- Author: Isenberg, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0595348823
- Language: English
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
$28.99 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century.
“Electric…Tense with the feeling that this… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316024740
- Language: English
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American Landmark: Charles Duell and the Rebirth of Middleton Place
$34.95 Read moreCharles Duell was 31 years old when he inherited Middleton Place from his grandfather in 1969. His sudden inheritance compelled him to leave a finance career in New York and move his family to South C… [more below]
- Author: Beach, Virginia Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1929647654
- Language: English
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250276276
- Language: English
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Almost Pioneers: One Couple’s Homesteading Adventure In The West
$16.95 Add to cartA really wonderful peek into the lives of a couple who tried the wide open west as homesteaders that reveals ineptitude as well as the usual pioneer bravado.
- Author: Fry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0762784393
- Language: English
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David Crockett: The Lion of the West
$19.99 Add to cartPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a… [more below]
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342271
- Language: English
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Young Lothar: An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin
$23.28 Add to cartHis promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach’s mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with … [more below]
- Author: Orbach, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1784537632
- Language: English
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As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38
$36.95 Read moreThe authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.
- Author: Liddington, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1526157357
- Language: English
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
$19.95 Read moreFintan O’Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of many other books, including A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His work frequently appears in Ame… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1438427581
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
$22.00 Add to cartAn engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut–the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt’s throne–was expe- Author: Cooney, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307956776
- Language: English
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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire
$29.95 Add to cartTo coincide with the release of Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, in November 2023.
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man
- Author: Papot, Emmanuelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0233005730
- Language: English
