History & Military
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter
$40.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening history of the exploration and mapping of our globe’s northernmost regions.
Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where defines the North. At the same time, t
- Author: Forss, Charlotta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1851245723
- Language: English
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The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding
$32.95 Add to cartThe preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birth
In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the Americ
- Series: The Revolutionary Age
- Author: Cogliano, Francis D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0813954622
- Language: English
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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
$19.99 Add to cartGreatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas–offering new revelations and a radical rethin
- Author: Menzies, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0062236784
- Language: English
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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit
$18.00 Add to cartNow the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, “The Unit.”
Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about- Author: Haney, Eric L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0385339364
- Language: English
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
$16.99 Add to cart“Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of” (Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set
- Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395911516
- Language: English
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Mao: The Man Who Made China
$26.95 Read moreOne of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of milli… [more below]
- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1350376728
- Language: English
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99 Add to cartHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome
$31.00 Add to cartProfessor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.
Our nation’s past is fu- Author: Jackson, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062607
- Language: English
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Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Ri… [more below]
- Author: Humphreys, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 9774167198
- Language: English
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Jefferson on Race: A Reader
$24.95 Add to cartFrom The New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0691122067
- Language: English
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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
$20.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th… [more below]
- Author: Goffe, Tao Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593684915
- Language: English
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping and urgent exploration of the crisis in Darfur and an impassioned examination of the world’s response to that crisis, from Mahmood Mamdani, “one of the most penetrating analysts of African … [more below]
- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0385525966
- Language: English
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Georgetown’s Retail Past: Generations of Shops and Restaurants in One of America’s Great Historic Neighborhoods
$34.95 Add to cartStep back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.
Georgetown’s Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Ge- Author: Peters, Kenneth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093622
- Language: English
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Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartThe unexplored history of the GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all matters economic, social, and cultural.
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road,- Author: Dunn, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1639734317
- Language: English
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Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
$37.50 Add to cartWhen Danielle Allen unearthed a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had discovered a story of historical magnitude that would alte
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1631497553
- Language: English
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The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Carr, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063288125
- Language: English
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Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
$35.00 Add to cartA hugely entertaining social history of the elite and exclusive Caribbean island of St. Barth?lemy from the New York Times bestselling author of Model and 740 Park.
St. Barthelemy is revered for its lu
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063410966
- Language: English
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Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World’s Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
$34.95 Add to cartThis superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry.
Cocaine: The Global Reach- Series: The Americas in the World
- Author: Cutrona, Sebastián A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368212
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Add to cartAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
