History & Military
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The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe
$38.00 Add to cartA renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the dramatic tale of modern Europe’s ascent.
In The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe, Walter McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Pr
- Author: McDougall, Walter A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1967613001
- Language: English
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What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind
$30.00 Read moreEver wondered what goes through other people’s minds–their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes, and dreams?
In What We Ask Google, Simon Rogers explores insights from the world’s biggest da… [more below]- Author: Rogers, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217176984
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$19.00 Add to cartAn “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American cultu… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1668007827
- Language: English
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Jewish History for Dummies
$26.99 Read moreWalk your way through Jewish history, life, and culture–from Abraham to today
Jewish History For Dummies provides unbiased, factual history of Jewish life, culture, and history. You’ll take a look a
- Author: Kurzweil, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04 2026
- ISBN10: 139442096X
- Language: English
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The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America’s Innovation Machine
$36.00 Read moreThe extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”–the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century–and the visionary who made it all possible
It- Author: Dean, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1524745510
- Language: English
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Victoria in Love: The Private Passion of a Queen
$35.00 Read moreThe passionate, provocative story of Queen Victoria’s relationship with her servant John Brown that reveals the secrets that royal historians have kept from us.
From the moment John Brown arrived as a- Author: Riddell, Fern
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100972
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Read moreHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
$35.00 Read moreFor thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring imag
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117516
- Language: English
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
$32.00 Read moreFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockef… [more below]
- Author: Brunt, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668074745
- Language: English
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The God of Our Fathers: The Great Stories of the Bible
$22.99 Read moreAs a way of connecting with his dying father, Aldo Cazzullo picks up the Bible and rediscovers an illuminating book that “speaks of us,” and whose legacy of storytelling formed our modern world
Until- Author: Cazzullo, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489082
- Language: English
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Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00 Read moreAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
$29.95 Read moreA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United S
- Author: Dierksheide, Christa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674278321
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Roman Empire: Battles, Conquests, Legions, and Rulers
$45.00 Read moreFrom a leading scholar of the ancient world, this stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire explores every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall.
At its- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1541607317
- Language: English
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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
$40.00 Read moreFrom an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities.
“Goldsworthy tells a timely tale of national pride, and he has much to be- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1541619986
- Language: English
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National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
$30.00 Read moreThe inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence–the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today–charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and… [more below]
- Author: Auslin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1668214547
- Language: English
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All American Patriotism: Celebrating 250 Years of America’s Greatness
$34.00 Read more- Author: Anon9780063515277
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 006351527X
- Language: English
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The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II
$30.00 Read moreAn oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.
During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than- Author: Davis, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1250429935
- Language: English
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
$30.00 Add to cartIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workp… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of American Life
- Author: Barrett, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143122800
- Language: English
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Huntford, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754741
- Language: English
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Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History
$19.95 Read moreThe Grand Canyon–long recognized as one of North America’s premier natural wonders–has stirred human imagination and creativity, leaving an indelible mark on all who have encountered its spectacular… [more below]
- Author: Lago, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1607813149
- Language: English
