Essays
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Political Fictions: From the Middle Ages to the Post-Truth Present
$23.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed historian illuminates today’s political situation by examining the relationship between governing and storytelling, from the Middle Ages to the “post-truth” present, in these engaging ess… [more below]
- Author: Boucheron, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1635423759
- Language: English
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
$35.00 Add to cartEric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner’s keynote has been American
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110619
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Masses
$15.95 Add to cartSocial upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega’s vision of Wes… [more below]
- Author: Ortega Y. Gasset, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393310957
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartInspiring stories of celebrities and locals who made their presence known in Wisconsin
Discover intriguing true tales of legends and trailblazers with Wisconsin connections who left their mark on th- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1976600472
- Language: English
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The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
$33.00 Add to cartIncredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace.
The Memory Palace is a collection of cr… [more below]- Author: Dimeo, Nate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593446151
- Language: English
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Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartThis riveting narrative details the mysterious disappearance of Peter Starr, a San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nev… [more below]
- Author: Alsup, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1930238185
- Language: English
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El Futuro Recordado / The Remembered Future
$17.95 Read more«Los libros de Irene Vallejo, claros e inteligentes, se leen muy bien e invitan a pensar. En la mejor línea humanista. -CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL
La aparente contradicción que da título a este lib- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820968
- Language: Spanish
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Confederate Statues and Memorialization
$21.95 Add to cartNine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls o
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355577
- Language: English
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The Deadline: Essays
$23.99 Add to cartFew, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style,
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 132409561X
- Language: English
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Alguien Habló de Nosotros / Someone Spoke of Us
$17.95 Read more«Se puede ser un fil?logo magistral y al mismo tiempo escribir como los ?ngeles. Irene Vallejo riza el rizo de la comunicaci?n hasta convertir su di?logo con el lector en una fiesta literaria. … [more below]
- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826230
- Language: Spanish
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La Llave de la Inmortalidad
$25.95 Add to cartLa religión y la ciencia convergen para pintar un cuadro radical del evento fundacional del cristianismo.
El historiador religioso más influyente del siglo xx, Houston Smith, alguna vez se refirió a
- Author: Muraresku, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 6075694242
- Language: Spanish
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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A History of Ideas: The Most Intriguing, Relevant and Helpful Concepts from the Story of Humanity
$32.99 Add to cartA collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.
This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas – and no
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1912891964
- Language: English
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Sole Food: Digestible Sneaker Culture
$14.95 Add to cartThe contemporary athletic shoe has experienced an evolution comparable to man. What began as necessity matriculated to style, then morphed into a culture with its own multicultural identity. Sole Food
- Author: King, Jemayne L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146882
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Victorian England, Volume 1
$10.99 Add to cartStep back to London, 1895.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian times that make the twenty-first century reader run to the reference
- Author: Sherwood-Fabre, Liese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0998411205
- Language: English
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The Deadline: Essays
$45.00 Add to cartFew, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style,
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1631496123
- Language: English
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand for
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States–winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presi- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1501174193
- Language: English
