Historiography
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
$32.00 Add to cartCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1982120258
- Language: English
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Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
$31.99 Add to cartWith its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Appleby, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393339394
- Language: English
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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
$34.50 Read moreLet’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is in… [more below]
- Author: Wineburg, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022635721X
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
$31.00 Add to cart“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in i… [more below]
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974673
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$24.99 Add to cartHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 457
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437558
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
$22.00 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the bat
Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979842
- Language: English
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
$15.95 Add to cartA huge success in hardcover, The Killing of History argues that history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes… [more below]
- Author: Windschuttle, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554120
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
$24.00 Read moreExciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimpse into what happened on that fateful day–July 2, 1863.
James Longstreet’s countermarch and Samuel J- Author: Thompson, Allen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1637585233
- Language: English
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
$29.95 Add to cartSince the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of th… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 1859843409
- Language: English
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Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
$31.00 Add to cartFollowing in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: De Landa, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0942299329
- Language: English
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History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThere are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold’s addition to Ox… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Arnold, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 019285352X
- Language: English
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Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
$34.95 Add to cartPink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride,
- Author: Newsome, William Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501765159
- Language: English
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
$19.98 Add to cartWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and… [more below]
- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195171578
- Language: English
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The Histories
$14.00 Add to cartTranslated by Aubrey de S?incourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449086
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
$45.00 Add to cartA beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians
The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historia- Author: Brown, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691242283
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$0.00 Read moreAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 198217126X
- Language: English
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “incisive” (Vanity Fair) and “authoritative” (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our n
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604660
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the World
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World is “an entire library’s worth of scholarship [in] a single volume” (San Francisco Gate).
“Authentically mind-boggling.” —Kirk- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1590201620
- Language: English
