Historiography
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
$22.00 Add to cartThe essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time c- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 079530109X
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
$27.99 Add to cartAt last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths–adapted by the famed National Book Award-winning artist behind John Lewis’s March … [more below]
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977036
- Language: English
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History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
$29.99 Add to cart1. Introduction2. e-History: Not Quite History, Not Quite The Past3. The Crowd-Sourced Past4. Nostalgia On-Demand5. The Viral Past6. The Visual Past7. The Newsworthy Past8. The Storytelling Past9. His… [more below]
- Author: Steinhauer, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 08 2021
- ISBN10: 3030851168
- Language: English
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
$31.10 Add to cartHistory Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004
- Author: Lindaman, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: July 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1595580824
- Language: English
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A Brief History of History
$24.00 Read moreIn A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. How
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066093
- Language: English
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A Renegade History of the United States
$20.00 Add to cartThis provocative perspective on America’s history claims that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fri… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Thaddeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416576134
- Language: English
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Order Without Law: The Wilbur Fisk Sanders Story
$38.65 Add to cartWilbur Fisk Sanders, Montana’s first U.S. Senator: Vigilante, hero or villain?
Now available is Order Without Law, the real story of this amazing patriot, abolitionist and champion of racial and soci
- Author: Sanders, Benjamin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798823005470
- Language: English
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History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
$22.99 Add to cartFour stimulating essays: “The Sportive Origin of the State,” “Unity and Diversity of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally publi… [more below]
- Author: Ortega y. Gasset, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001229
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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Migrants: The Story of Us All
$34.99 Read moreMigrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind’s urge to move.
‘Fascinating… Miller’s perspective may be just what we need’ Daily Telegraph
‘Timely an- Author: Miller, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1408713543
- Language: English
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
$22.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE – Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brillian- Author: Connelly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973676
- Language: English
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
$19.99 Add to cart“Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner’s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice.” –David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-L
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0809097052
- Language: English
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How Historians Work: Retelling the Past: From the Civil War to the Wider World
$24.95 Add to cartHistory does not simply happen, most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Yet, far too often we focus on the final product and ignore the men … [more below]
- Author: Judith, Hallock Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1933337435
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
$11.99 Add to cartA brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treas
- Author: Bridgeford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2004
- ISBN10: 184115041X
- Language: English
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A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History
$16.99 Add to cartMany people think of history as merely “the past”–or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices of those who have gone before and humbly remember
- Series: Little Books
- Author: McKenzie, Robert Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0830853464
- Language: English
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Order Without Law: The Wilbur Fisk Sanders Story
$58.65 Add to cartWilbur Fisk Sanders, Montana’s first U.S. Senator: Vigilante, hero or villain?
Now available is Order Without Law, the real story of this amazing patriot, abolitionist and champion of racial and soci
- Author: Sanders, Benjamin E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798823005463
- Language: English
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History as Mystery
$21.95 Add to cartIn a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history’s victors distort and suppress the documentary record in
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0872863573
- Language: English
