General History
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Society for American Archaeology Book Award, The Neanderthals Rediscovered is a fascinating study of the Neanderthals, informed by the latest scientific developments and discoveries, now
- Series: Rediscovered
- Author: Papagianni, Dimitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296405
- Language: English
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From Sand Creek to Summit Springs: Colorado’s Indian Wars
$25.95 Add to cartThe Colorado Indian wars were indeed tragic. No more so than for the women. Their stories are frightening, tragic, heroic and courageous. From the ashes of the Sand Creek camp site, Mo-chi raises her … [more below]
- Author: Wommack, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 543
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0870046438
- Language: English
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The Story of the Moors in Spain
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1886, this book has held its place as the classic work on the Moors in Spain: a scholarly, wonderfully readable and sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy.
- Author: Lane-Poole, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: December 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121199
- Language: English
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a “nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one” … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0307948781
- Language: English
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Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
$22.00 Read more“SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.”
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable confli
–The Washington Post- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0345391683
- Language: English
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Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide
$24.95 Add to cartIn the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the ability to fly like a bird, the magicians of Egypt were the ones who could make it happen. In Ancient
- Author: Riggs, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0500052123
- Language: English
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A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific
$38.95 Add to cartNestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript–a long-lost story the author’s great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler
- Author: Brash, Alexander R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074768
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
$13.95 Add to cart“He was a man like no other man has ever been”
In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egyp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hammond, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199587248
- Language: English
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She Devils at the Door
$29.00 Read moreThe true story of the Gilded Age’s “political twins” who brought women’s suffrage and political reform to the city of Pittsburgh.
Sometimes troublemakers emerge from the most unlikely of places. This- Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Nonfiction
- Author: Brown, Eliza Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0887486983
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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Time’s Monster: How History Makes History
$19.95 Add to cartA New Statesman Best Book of the Year
“Powerful and radically important.”
–Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement “Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the f- Author: Satia, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292170
- Language: English
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Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History (Teacher’s Guide)
$7.99 Read moreIntegrate into your educational program This modern teacher’s guide will help you make the most of your Adams’ Chart of History. Filled with suggested activities, sample skill tests, and ideas it mak… [more below]
- Author: Master Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 31
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0890515352
- Language: English
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The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote
$28.00 Add to cartHow Ohio’s women were essential to the national women’s suffrage movement
Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a
- Author: Capuzza, Jamie C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354558
- Language: English
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
$18.95 Read moreScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cr
- Author: Chase, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050284
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Olympic Titanic Britannic: The Anatomy and Evolution of the Olympic Class
$38.00 Read moreThe Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons.
The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to se- Author: Mills, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1472988655
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
