History & Military
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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
$19.98 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States, featuring a new afterword reflecting on the 250th an… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0197836968
- Language: English
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Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent Into Total War
$41.99 Read moreOver three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and mon
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1324065486
- Language: English
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The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartThe changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today
The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry–and- Author: Rosenblatt, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203962
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Classic Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA translation and transliteration of the most important and authoritative funerary text from Ancient Egypt
At the turn of the twentieth century, a representative of the British Museum traveled to Egypt- Author: Budge, E. a. Wallis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1250384303
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
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Steam and Steel: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1884
$25.00 Add to cartThe years following the Civil War were fraught with change for the people of the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. War had altered patterns of trade… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Brooks Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 162806451X
- Language: English
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River: A Hudson Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartLeslie Day’s life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin–a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In her hea
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783882
- Language: English
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
$20.00 Read moreA compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire
The Ptolemaic era, Egypt’s last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age.- Author: De La Bedoyere, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284942
- Language: English
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
$17.99 Add to cartOnce Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial
- Author: Townsend, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 006199720X
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Add to cartWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster
$35.00 Add to cartA detailed re-examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy that saw the USA enter World War II.
In this the first comprehensive treatment of Pearl Harbor since the early 1990s- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472865316
- Language: English
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
$19.95 Add to cartINSIDE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Discover the epic history of the first US national park in this historical adventure for fans of American history, the Wild West, and the hit show
Explore how Yellows- Author: Wilson, Randall K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097333
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history.
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical sc- Author: Gazur, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297893
- Language: English
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The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
$32.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening history of taxation showing that battles over taxes have always really been battles over democracy itself
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is- Author: Williamson, Vanessa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606116
- Language: English
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Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
$24.95 Add to cartNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916771
- Language: English
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Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
$29.99 Add to cartA propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
It began with a lette- Author: Kuehn, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250344468
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living Legacy
$28.99 Add to cartThe Civilian Conservation Corps transformed Oregon’s landscapes, building lasting parks, roads, trails, and forest infrastructure.
Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt … [more below]
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1634995279
- Language: English
