General History
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Scotland
$14.95 Read moreThe broad sweep of Scotland’s story, both past and present, is chronicled by one of the country’s best historians. Andrew Fisher begins with Scotland’s first people and their culture and ends with Dev… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566567564
- Language: English
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
$19.99 Add to cart“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” –Bill Bryson
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter M
- Author: Palin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771645725
- Language: English
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
$28.99 Add to cartEmpires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of m… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199892261
- Language: English
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The Crimean War: A History
$26.99 Read moreFrom “the great storyteller of modern Russian historians” (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nigh- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002524
- Language: English
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Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
$22.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness
The 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely- Author: Anziska, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202451
- Language: English
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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent
$14.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDERThe true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.
He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a ma
- Author: Fraser, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 000722950X
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
$23.99 Add to cartThe death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the … [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325419
- Language: English
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
“Holy War brings compassion, objec- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721404
- Language: English
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
$24.95 Add to cart“This beautifully-illustrated letterpress hardcover weaves drawing, photographs, artifacts, and text to tell the story of 27 pioneers of the women’s movement from Sappho to Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirle… [more below]
- Author: O’Leary, Chandler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1632170574
- Language: English
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In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
$30.00 Read moreA writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River–exploring the long conflict over water supply
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has- Author: Fergusson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244150
- Language: English
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From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium
$24.95 Read moreThis illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre!
Based on Sayre’s five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is- Author: Sayre, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 145217802X
- Language: English
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$20.00 Read moreFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus–an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who bec… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #03
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0385483724
- Language: English
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Merits of the Plague
$18.00 Read moreThe preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time
A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and re- Author: Hajar Al-Asqalani, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136615
- Language: English
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In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa, 1795-1905
$38.95 Add to cartWhen the cultural identity of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa was challenged by European Americans–who conceived of progress in terms of cultivated farmland–a tribal-federal conundrum o… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1946163562
- Language: English
