History & Military
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
$20.00 Add to cartAlready a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since th
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 080214473X
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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The First World War
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. “Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient…. Keegan is…perhaps the best mil… [more below]
- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0375700455
- Language: English
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Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
$19.95 Add to cartWith more than 200 illustrations by the author.
- Author: Tunis, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 158574137X
- Language: English
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A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust
$35.00 Add to cart‘A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times’ – Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust
LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust’s properties in t- Author: Hall, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 178130114X
- Language: English
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Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century
$24.00 Add to cartThe stories of early modern Protestant women, including Rose Thurgood, Anna Trapnel, and Jane Lead, who defied the religious authority of their age.
Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and belie- Author: Baker, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391196
- Language: English
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Las Venas Abiertas de Am?rica Latina
$32.50 Add to cartEscrib? Las venas para difundir ideas ajenas y experiencias propias que quiz? s ayuden un poquito, en su realista medida, a despejar los interrogantes que nos persiguen desde siempre: es Am? rica La… [more below]
- Series: Biblioteca Eduardo Galeano
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 607031140X
- Language: Spanish
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New York’s Family Grocer: The Story of d’Agostino Supermarkets
$34.95 Add to cartFrom pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleeps
New York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from I- Author: Schmitz, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1531513220
- Language: English
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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland
$29.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation, family legacy, and Disney magic. A Spoonful of Sugar tells the fascinating story of … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992564501
- Language: English
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
$24.99 Add to cartEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and … [more below]
- Author: Blom, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020291
- Language: English
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India: A Short History
$16.95 Add to cartThroughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of philosophers and indomitab
- Series: Short History
- Author: Robinson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298254
- Language: English
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
$20.00 Add to cartUSA Today Bestseller
Timed for the 250th anniversary of America’s revolution and founding: Paul Revere’s heroic ride and its aftermath On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti- Author: Kennedy, Kostya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250341396
- Language: English
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
$19.99 Add to cartOur Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and with o
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324097973
- Language: English
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Devil’s Fire, Southern Cross: The Conclusion of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, October 1943-February 1944
$35.00 Add to cartA fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox.
This page-turning history exam- Author: Cox, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1472864484
- Language: English
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Us and Allied Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, 2009-21
$21.00 Add to cartAn illustrated study of the development and operations of coalition and Afghan Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan from 2009 until the withdrawal in 2021.
At the end of 2008, the clearly inadequ- Series: Elite #264
- Author: Parkinson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 147286493X
- Language: English
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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
