History
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Dante: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Florence’s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here w- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Lewis, R. W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 014311641X
- Language: English
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Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans
$18.95 Add to cartDiscover the complete Black history of New York–from 1609 to the present–by the award-winning author of Breaking the Chains and Black Indians. For readers 12 and up.
Includes a new intro and last ch- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644214393
- Language: English
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My Little Golden Book about Route 66
$5.99 Read moreHit the road and explore the legendary Route 66 in this fun and fact-filled Little Golden Book!
Join Ramblin’ Rosie, a spunky red convertible, as she cruises down America’s most famous highway–Route- Series: My Little Golden Book About…
- Author: Muldrow, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593905938
- Language: English
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The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America’s Innovation Machine
$36.00 Read moreThe extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”–the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century–and the visionary who made it all possible
It- Author: Dean, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1524745510
- Language: English
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Victoria in Love: The Private Passion of a Queen
$35.00 Read moreThe passionate, provocative story of Queen Victoria’s relationship with her servant John Brown that reveals the secrets that royal historians have kept from us.
From the moment John Brown arrived as a- Author: Riddell, Fern
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100972
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Read moreHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
$35.00 Read moreFor thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring imag
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117516
- Language: English
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Queer and How We Got Here: A (Personal) History
$25.99 Read more“Honest, informative, and stylish, this book made me grateful for the activism of the past and gave me courage for the fights to come!” –Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir
“This book belon
- Author: Newlevant, Hazel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0316274445
- Language: English
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The Student: A Short History
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom
“[Roth] has a clear vision for what it ought to mean to be a student: Learn what you- Author: Roth, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280157
- Language: English
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
$32.00 Read moreFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockef… [more below]
- Author: Brunt, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668074745
- Language: English
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Tribal Government: Wind River Reservation
$19.50 Add to cartFor generations, understanding the government of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes has been essential to understanding Wyoming itself. Yet many Wyoming citizens have had limited access
- Author: Flynn, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: January 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798993960005
- Language: English
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The God of Our Fathers: The Great Stories of the Bible
$22.99 Read moreAs a way of connecting with his dying father, Aldo Cazzullo picks up the Bible and rediscovers an illuminating book that “speaks of us,” and whose legacy of storytelling formed our modern world
Until- Author: Cazzullo, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489082
- Language: English
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Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00 Read moreAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
$28.00 Read moreIn the tradition of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, a terse and piercing look at a critical episode in the Ukraine War, from the award-winning author of They Will Have to Die Now.
In March of 2022, three wee- Author: Verini, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062208
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
$29.95 Read moreA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United S
- Author: Dierksheide, Christa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674278321
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Roman Empire: Battles, Conquests, Legions, and Rulers
$45.00 Read moreFrom a leading scholar of the ancient world, this stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire explores every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall.
At its- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1541607317
- Language: English
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The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos
$32.00 Read moreHow learning to “listen” to the universe using radio waves has revolutionized our understanding of everything from gravity to little green men.
In space, no one can hear you scream. But the universe- Author: Chapman, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1541601858
- Language: English
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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
$40.00 Read moreFrom an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities.
“Goldsworthy tells a timely tale of national pride, and he has much to be- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1541619986
- Language: English
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: The Story of the Science That Shapes Our World
$29.99 Read moreThe International Bestseller
‘Ambitious . . . pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics’ – New Scientist Quantum physics is the cornerstone of our world. Yet,
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book 2025- Author: Verstraete, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1035065843
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
$19.00 Add to cartIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394725808
- Language: English
