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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
$35.00 Add to cartEvery American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.
Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 125034641X
- Language: English
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Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits
$27.00 Read moreAn entertaining journey into the booming world of vintage spirits, the quirky and intensely passionate “dusty hunters” who chase them, and the history they reveal, from an acclaimed author and journal… [more below]
- Author: Goldfarb, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1419766791
- Language: English
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Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge
$34.95 Add to cartThe fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world.
In Spanning the Gilded Age, John K. Brown tells the daring, improbable story of the construction of the St. Lo
- Series: Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
- Author: Brown, John K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448629
- Language: English
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Historia Americana: Una guÃa fascinante de la historia de Estados Unidos, la Revolución americana, la guerra civil, Chicago, los años vein
$33.97 Add to cart8 manuscritos completos en 1 libro
- Historia de los Estados Unidos: Una gu?a fascinante de la historia de Am?rica, que incluye eventos como la Revoluci?n americana, la guerra franco-india, el Mot?n del
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 742
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160607
- Language: Spanish
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The Handy American History Answer Book
$49.95 Add to cartTake a walk through the biggest events, the wars, the economic, political, and social forces, the presidents, and lesser-known personalities as well as the sports, music, and entertainment that create… [more below]
- Series: Handy Answer Books
- Author: Hudson, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1578594715
- Language: English
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Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War
$21.95 Add to cartWas Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It’s shocking to think so.
But that’s precisely what Walter D. Kenned
- Author: Kennedy, Walter D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0595446981
- Language: English
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The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South–and how it shaped our modern world.
“A must-read for all social justice activists, t- Author: Allen, Theodore W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839763922
- Language: English
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Easy Hikes to the Hidden Past: Pikes Peak Region Edition
$16.99 Add to cartUpdated for 2022. Easy Hikes to the Hidden Past is a unique book concept to get readers off the couch and outside to the Great Outdoors, to not only enjoy some wonderful walks hikes and bike rides, bu
- Author: Shockley, Rocky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578744600
- Language: English
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A Renegade History of the United States
$20.00 Add to cartThis provocative perspective on America’s history claims that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fri… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Thaddeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416576134
- Language: English
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
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American Feast: Cookbooks and Cocktails from the Library of Congress
$21.95 Add to cart- Series: Collection Close-Ups
- Author: Klitzman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0844495832
- Language: English
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The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation
$23.99 Add to cart“The American Dream” is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fasci… [more below]
- Author: Cullen, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173252
- Language: English
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The Wild West: A Captivating Guide to the American Old West, Including Stories of Famous Outlaws and Lawmen Such as Billy the Kid, Pa
$27.99 Add to cartDid you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?
Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal charges to their name. Some were murderers, some were
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: November 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1637165242
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFrom Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land, and building businesses, churches and communities, despite laws designed to seg… [more below]
- Author: Wormser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1250292034
- Language: English
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Prayers & Presidents – Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the Past
$25.00 Add to cart“Went to church and fasted all day.”-GEORGE WASHINGTON, Diary Entry, June 1, 1774, day British blockaded Boston’s harbor From George Washington’s orders for troops to attend divine services, to Abraha… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0982710119
- Language: English
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The Ohio Bridge: Cincinnati’s Roebling Suspension Bridge, 1846-1939
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Cincinnati’s Roebling Suspension Bridge, connecting the Queen City to Covington, Kentucky, opened in 1866 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at just over 1000 feet. The need for su
- Author: Stevens, Harry R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1948986167
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
$21.95 Add to cartIn a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed–the lighthouse keepers–from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was esta
- Author: de Wire, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561641197
- Language: English
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Two Potts, a Faucett, and a Double Hanging: The Only Married Americans Executed Simultaneously
$22.95 Add to cartManchester, England natives Josiah and Elizabeth Potts have the dubious distinction of being the first-and only-married couple ever executed simultaneously in American history. Somehow their bizarre s… [more below]
- Author: Sharp, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977264395
- Language: English
