History & Military
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
$21.99 Add to cart“A remarkable new history” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame–and what we can learn from its embers
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any- Author: Bevins, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541788982
- Language: English
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24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
$19.99 Add to cartSpend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings.
Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we now know as the Viking… [more below]- Series: 24 Hours #1
- Author: Wolf, Kirsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297877
- Language: English
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Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth
$32.50 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope
Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo s- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278977
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
$21.99 Add to cart“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)
We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omi… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 154170620X
- Language: English
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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$18.99 Add to cartA profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-ol
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1684425662
- Language: English
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Goats in America: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartThe humble goat has played a surprising and important role throughout the history of the United States. Despite this, goats are often overlooked by many Americans, even if they have strong opinions ab… [more below]
- Author: Parr, Tami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645452
- Language: English
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
$19.95 Add to cart‘Albanese has spoken truth with unflinching clarity in a world largely silent in the face of a holocaust, carrying out her mandate with integrity and defiance that honours both the law and the human
- Author: Albanese, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0745352316
- Language: English
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A Hiker’s History of the Appalachian Trail
$24.99 Add to cartEvery history of the Appalachian Trail tells the story from the top down, focusing on who proposed the trail, who built it, who maintain it, and on a few of the most famous hikers. A Hiker’s History o
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Kelly, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159999
- Language: English
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Scarlett: Slavery’s Enduring Legacy in an American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA sixth-generation descendant of the Scarlett family of Georgia, Leslie Stainton grew up hearing about her heroic ancestors and their tragic plunge from wealth to poverty in the wake of the Civil War-… [more below]
- Author: Stainton, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126759
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Visual History
$45.00 Read moreThe story of America’s bloodiest conflict is still as meaningful today as it was in 1865.
This comprehensive, visually arresting guide covers the history, causes, and consequences of the Civil War. It- Series: DK Definitive Visual Histories
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0593963512
- Language: English
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
$29.95 Add to cartAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored.
Born to a… [more below]
- Author: Rooney, Padraig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566295
- Language: English
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Delivering for America: How the United States Postal Service Built a Nation
$50.00 Add to cartThe first official book to chronicle the rich, 250-year history of the United States Postal Service, told through captivating stories and stunning visuals.
The United States Postal Service (USPS), fou
- Author: Bruns, James H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1595911537
- Language: English
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
$40.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE – An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom
In th- Author: Burke, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0525659439
- Language: English
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Queens of Islam: The Muslim World’s Historic Women Rulers
$20.00 Add to cartA survey of prominent Muslim women rulers from the first centuries of Islamic history to early modern times.
From Pakistan to Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, from Senegal to Turkey, it is not unusua- Author: Verde, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1623717949
- Language: English
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Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
$31.00 Add to cartIn 1776, one man’s words–and the determination of American patriots–allowed our nation to survive its first crisis.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence marked the birth o- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1250331935
- Language: English
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
$25.00 Add to cartAn award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)–that the West is, and always has been, truly global.
“Those archaic- Author: Quinn, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593729803
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
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Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea
$38.00 Add to cartA behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea’s nuclear capabilities have not worked
For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea’s attempts to bui- Author: Wit, Joel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278772
- Language: English
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Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of the German exiles–and cultural titans–who settled in Pacific Palisades and influenced American culture.
In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most mo- Author: Blubacher, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582873
- Language: English
