Historical
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Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz
$17.00 Add to cart“He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust.” —USA Today
A Penguin Classic
Primo Levi was one of the most- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188959
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf – The Official 1939 Edition Murphy Translation
$49.99 Add to cart“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler The officially sanctioned English language edition of ‘Mein Kampf’ was translated and intro
- Series: Third Reich from Original Sources
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1908538694
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
$14.99 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) is an unfinished memoir by Benjamin Franklin. Addressing the work to his son William, Franklin intended to provide a private account of his life and accom
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1513208055
- Language: English
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Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read
$32.95 Read moreBetween August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized the Caribbean in and around Jamaica. Despite their short career, they became two of the most notorious pir… [more below]
- Author: Simon, Rebecca Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1526791307
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$9.94 Add to cartFor the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552398
- Language: English
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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNo one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and inten… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mansfield, Harvey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0195175395
- Language: English
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
$23.00 Add to cartIn this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century’s most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-publ… [more below]
- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124072
- Language: English
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Man of Treacherous Charm: Territorial Justice Edmund C. Fitzhugh
$32.95 Read moreIn 1857, coal mine manager Edmund C. Fitzhugh killed a drunken trespasser in his garden. Though Fitzhugh was under indictment for murder and only marginally qualified for the position, U.S. president
- Author: Wellman, Candace A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0874224225
- Language: English
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The Sharpshooter and the Showman: May Lillie, Pawnee Bill, and Their Wild West Show
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1560378883
- Language: English
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The Bront?s’ Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bront?s’ Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors.
While the Bront? family’s celebrations weren’t t
- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1803997605
- Language: English
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An Echo of Ashes
$15.99 Add to cartAn Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box.
Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and th
- Author: Ames, Ron Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1962465969
- Language: English
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Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope – A Bergen-Belsen Survivor’s True Story
$18.95 Add to cart2025 Recipient of THE ANNE FRANK AWARD FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND TOLERANCE, from the Dutch Government
2024 Recipient of THE OFFICER’S CROSS OF THE ORDER OF MERIT of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany
- Author: Butter, Irene Hasenberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1948585332
- Language: English
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The Cruise of the Snark
$17.00 Add to cartInspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the fo… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437735
- Language: English
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived in: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
$31.99 Add to cartThis vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Edith Forbes paints a memorable
- Author: Forbes, Esther Hoskins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0618001948
- Language: English
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A Song for Nagasaki – Hallow Edition: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
$17.95 Add to cartIn collaboration with the Hallow Catholic meditation app, Ignatius Press presents this special edition of A Song for Nagasaki by Paul Glynn.
Takashi Nagai’s incredible story of conversion and faith- Author: Glynn, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1621648125
- Language: English
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Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
$31.99 Add to cartFew women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton’s “saucy” sister-in-law, and the hear
- Author: Beer, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050217
- Language: English
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The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
$35.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of America’s first special forces, secret confidant of FDR, and one of the most controversial officers in the history of … [more below]
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525658017
- Language: English
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American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
$49.95 Add to cartThomas E. Patterson’s monumental biography of Huey Long is a profound reevaluation of his life and legacy, recognizing him as an inspirational progressive thinker, populist hero, and radical influence
- Author: Patterson, Thomas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807182990
- Language: English
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Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
$38.99 Add to cartA landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Se- Author: Tameez, Zaakir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362555
- Language: English
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Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook
$19.95 Add to cartCan you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth–where she speaks … [more below]
- Series: Texts and Contexts
- Author: Suleiman, Susan Rubin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803292619
- Language: English
