History & Military
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American Uprising
$15.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Breathtaking. [Rasmussen’s] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself–about how
- Author: Rasmussen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0061995223
- Language: English
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The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
$21.99 Add to cartFollowing the bitterly contested election between Adams and Jefferson in 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of
- Author: Sloan, Cliff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488058
- Language: English
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Modern Military Aircraft: Highly-Detailed Gatefold Artworks
$16.99 Add to cartModern Military Aircraft features more than 100 of the most important and influential military aircraft serving today, ranging from the latest F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter to the Sukhoi Su-27 Fla
- Series: Mini Encyclopedias
- Author: Ward, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1838866086
- Language: English
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Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash
$30.00 Add to cartA history of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, from Revolutionary War allies to modern resurgence
How did the Oneida Nation of northeastern Wisconsin–stripped of nearly all its reservation lands by the
- Series: The Henry Roe Cloud American Indians and Modernity
- Author: Kiel, Douglas Metoxen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 030026982X
- Language: English
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How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
$19.95 Read moreAs bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. B
- Author: Johnson, Adam H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0745351654
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$24.00 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of 2025
An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0226852598
- Language: English
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Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonc?
$22.95 Add to cart“A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most.”―Tiya Mile
- Author: Cobbs, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299094
- Language: English
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New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
$34.95 Add to cartIntended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain’s New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city’s history. Although many excellent books are
- Author: Chamberlain, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 080718487X
- Language: English
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The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story
$37.95 Add to cartBigfoot! Huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public’s imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern Ca… [more below]
- Author: Long, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591021391
- Language: English
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Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartThis colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.
It was a summer like no one had ever experienced:- Author: Hilmes, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1635425417
- Language: English
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1942: Crux of War
$45.00 Add to cartAn engrossing and encyclopedic narrative of the year in which the outcome of World War Two hung in the balance
The year opened with the Axis powers inflicting a series of disasters on the newly formed- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: June 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0197848370
- Language: English
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Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine
$27.95 Add to cartHow the iconic publication’s unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.
Rolling Stone‘s first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the orig- Author: Richardson, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0520399390
- Language: English
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Navajo Code Talker Manual
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Navajo men in service to their country came an extraordinary weapon in the Pacific Arena of World War II. Twenty-nine Navajo Marines were recruited to adapt their language into a code so secret a… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1940322375
- Language: English
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Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating and moving portrait of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, in her later years after the Duke’s death.
The true story behind the film The Duchess and I, starring Isabella Rosselini- Author: Vickers, Hugo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101214
- Language: English
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
$24.95 Add to cart“Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes’s debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts.”–The Guardian
“A history of med- Author: Howes, Hetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0520430824
- Language: English
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Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa
$12.00 Add to cart- Author: Dreke, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1604882166
- Language: English
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively and entertaining . . . Those fearlessly determined female pilots are the professional forebears of the women who would slowly break down barriers in the U.S. military in the decades that follo
- Author: Aikman, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1639739343
- Language: English
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The American Revolution on Trial: A New Nation Confronts the Burden of Independence
$29.95 Add to cartA master historian uncovers a spellbinding story illustrating the stakes for the new nation in the American War for Independence
How does a new country demonstrate to the world that it is prepared to u
- Series: The Revolutionary Age
- Author: Breen, Timothy Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0813954975
- Language: English
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Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes Into Europe
$29.00 Add to cartJust in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly car… [more below]
- Author: Robberson, Tod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544600
- Language: English
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A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks
$24.95 Add to cartBelmont Rocks: Where Chicago Went Queer in Broad Daylight
A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks by Owen Keehnen is a vivid work of LGBTQ+ history, queer Chicago history, and oral history
- Author: Keehnen, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1968983023
- Language: English
