United States - 20th Century
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The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy
$32.99 Read moreFrom the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurgent movement of hate in America.
Americans today l- Author: Ross, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1635578000
- Language: English
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
$31.00 Read moreThe true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it.
Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press a- Author: Pappalardo, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1250287561
- Language: English
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Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
$27.50 Add to cartSons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain- Author: Das, Joanna Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828409
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
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The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
$22.99 Add to cartFifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears
- Author: Guariglia, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089377
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$21.99 Add to cartIn this fully updated second edition of their masterful history, leading historians and best-selling authors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment, answering t
- Series: Fault Lines
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035544
- Language: English
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Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos
$29.95 Add to cartA crucial explanation of the Republican party’s increasing radicalization over the past fifty years
Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing- Author: Heideman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 180429408X
- Language: English
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North Toward Home
$21.00 Add to cartWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724605
- Language: English
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent
$9.99 Add to cartCollected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book A People’s History of the United States, Ho
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060578262
- Language: English
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Teddy Roosevelt: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Theodore Roosevelt Who Served as the 26th President of the United States of America
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating life of Teddy Roosevelt, then keep reading…
The Roosevelt family would become a political dynasty in the United States, spanning from the late 19th century to
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1647486831
- Language: English
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The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare
$35.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning journalist and coauthor of The 15:17 to Paris, an affecting human history of the first self-steering bomb
Paveway, the first “smart” bomb, was created to be a more precise and osten- Author: Stern, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1524746428
- Language: English
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
$27.95 Add to cartA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.
Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and end
- Author: Leonard, Aaron J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978841809
- Language: English
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – A New Y… [more below]
- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982176628
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00 Add to cartWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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Mississippi Heroes: White Champions of Racial Justice, 1954-1974
$24.94 Add to cartBetween 1954-1974 hundreds of courageous Black individuals in Mississippi defied intimidation, police arrests, violence, and death to gain justice and equality in the courts, in education, job opportu
- Author: Dollar, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218682002
- Language: English
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”–Jon Meacham
“History at its most- Author: Wineapple, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593229940
- Language: English
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
$21.00 Add to cartAccused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. His… [more below]
- Author: Evans, M. Stanton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 1400081068
- Language: English
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The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
$32.00 Add to cartPresident Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if Truman’s actual decision wasn’t what everyone thinks it was?
Eight decades after the bom
- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0063379430
- Language: English
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One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom–and how their conflicting vis
- Author: Buccola, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691230307
- Language: English
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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
