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Wonders of the USA
$12.99 Add to cartIn Wonders of the USA, readers explore caves and rivers, visit national parks and view historic buildings. Shine a flashlight behind the page or hold it to the light to reveal what is hidden in and ar… [more below]
- Series: Shine-A-Light
- Author: Brown, Carron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610675436
- Language: English
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A Reverence for Wood
$9.99 Add to cartRefreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity – from the crafting of furniture, tools, and b… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: June 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964740
- Language: English
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
$20.00 Read moreCrap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much c… [more below]
- Author: Woloson, Wendy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824071
- Language: English
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
$18.95 Add to cartIn this “magnificent compendium” (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing “illuminate[s] the history of America itsel
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492500
- Language: English
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The Story of American Freedom
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America’s strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner tak… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319628
- Language: English
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Smith & Wesson
$40.99 Add to cartHorace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson shared a dream of manufacturing a firearm that could fire repeatedly, using a new and self-contained cartridge. In 1852, the dream became a reality with the foundi… [more below]
- Author: Jinks, Roy G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1531627609
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
$40.00 Read moreThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.'” Rogers’s little book wa… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0307908712
- Language: English
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
$70.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them–and their uncanny- Author: Sachs, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691215413
- Language: English
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
$28.99 Read moreIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fic… [more below]
- Author: Puglionesi, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982116757
- Language: English
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The Still Hour
$15.00 Add to cartAustin Phelps (1820-1890) was a congregational minister, a professor of sacred rhetoric and homiletics, and later a president of Andover Theological Seminary. He wrote several books which were widely … [more below]
- Author: Phelps, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2005
- ISBN10: 1932474757
- Language: English
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The Land of Enterprise
$19.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for fr… [more below]
- Author: Waterhouse, Benjamin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1476766657
- Language: English
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The Mound Builders
$21.95 Add to cartIn Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the specul
- Author: Silverberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0821408399
- Language: English
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
$16.95 Read more“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar de
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867234
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
$5.95 Read moreThe ideal introduction for students, aspiring citizens, and general readers to the documents that are as relevant today as when they were first drafted more than 200 years ago.
In the years since thei- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Cullop, Floyd G.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531302
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$33.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589813
- Language: English
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787
$19.99 Add to cart“Remarkable…If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it” (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dram… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0316103985
- Language: English
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This America: The Case for the Nation
$16.95 Add to cartAt a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496417
- Language: English
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartSelected testimonies to living history–speeches, letters, poems, songs–offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring in… [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1609805925
- Language: English
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The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014
$25.99 Add to cartIn his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have “the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: Herring, George C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0190212470
- Language: English
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Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
$19.95 Add to cartThe crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the ‘get money’ culture of late twentieth-century America.
- Author: Farber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1108444067
- Language: English
