History & Military
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New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies
$24.99 Add to cartA chocolate mill opened in Boston in the late 1700s, setting the stage for New England’s enduring love affair with sweets. Over the following centuries, the region has become home to an extraordinary
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bregman, Susan Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157481
- Language: English
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The History Book
$34.99 Add to cartWhy did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Part of DK’s indispensable Big Ideas series, this fully revised
- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: Dk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593966783
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$20.00 Add to cartWITH A NEW AFTERWORD
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR’s Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Boo- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593476115
- Language: English
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The Shipyard Agent
$26.95 Add to cartAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to
- Author: Hodgins, Beverly Lionberger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1493087630
- Language: English
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The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate
$32.50 Add to cartHow white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics
It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist- Author: Dozier, Curtis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0300272731
- Language: English
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Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
$24.00 Add to cartAn honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru’s Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina’s Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nic… [more below]
- Author: Rosenberg, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140172548
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended
$29.99 Add to cartA clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revoluti
- Author: Richards, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1620979241
- Language: English
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
$24.00 Add to cart*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*
From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order- Author: Diamond, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560645
- Language: English
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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US part… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1781689997
- Language: English
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
$24.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power
- Author: Kolb, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657885
- Language: English
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
$32.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of the Jewish Bund–a revolutionary movement from a vanished world–and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.
“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to- Author: Crabapple, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593229452
- Language: English
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Facing Washington’s Crossing: The Hessians and the Battle of Trenton
$35.00 Add to cartThey crossed the ocean to fight in someone else’s war. They came for glory, honor, and plunder. Instead, they became America’s most famous captives.
In Steven Bier’s groundbreaking book, Facing Washin
- Author: Bier, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1594164436
- Language: English
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Secret Indiana: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Ward, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681065843
- Language: English
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The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation (1984-2024)
$71.99 Add to cartOn July 4, 1984, Nashville celebrated Independence Day at Riverfront Park for the first time. The park itself was just a year old. Richard Fulton was mayor. The only Athena statue in the Parthenon was
- Author: Gresham, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218702595
- Language: English
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The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation
$17.00 Add to cartWith stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy’s monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the es… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Livy, Titus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 25 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448098
- 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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Calendar:: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
$17.99 Add to cartThe adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world’s official timekeeper si
- Author: Duncan, David Ewing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0380793245
- Language: English
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$30.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal P?tain
$21.95 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France i- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 067429937X
- Language: English
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Law in America: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s great… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972856
- Language: English
