History
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Partisan Song: A Holocaust Story of Resilience, Resistance, and Revenge
$29.00 Add to cartThe inspiring, previously untold tale of survival, defiance, heroism, and an unlikely hero – the Jewish civil engineer and musician who led the extraordinarily successful guerilla war to liberate Ukra… [more below]
- Author: Grymes, James A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0806543450
- Language: English
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Bufalino: Revelations of a Mafia Family, the Teamsters, and the Final Resting Place of Jimmy Hoffa
$29.00 Read moreWritten by the legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino’s cousin, this gripping insider’s account is an epic tell-all of the Pennsylvania Mafia family’s origins, both personal and criminal, from its coal… [more below]
- Author: Bufalino, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544821
- Language: English
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The Trial of Buford H. Pusser
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Harmening, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: December 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798348168278
- Language: English
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Patriot: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR – The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition l… [more below]
- Author: Navalny, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593315561
- Language: English
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George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Loa #396)
$45.00 Add to cartA CLASSIC OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY: The Civil War comes alive in this fully restored, 900-page selected edition of the diaries of one of its keenest observers.
Based on the original manuscripts, this new- Author: Strong, George Templeton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 159853825X
- Language: English
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Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov
$17.95 Add to cartIgnacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family’s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city’s underground sewers with the help of an unlikely hero.
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Chiger, Ignacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 949341857X
- Language: English
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Double Crossed: The WWII Spies Who Saved D-Day
$19.99 Read moreA thrilling WWII middle-grade narrative nonfiction account of Operation Bodyguard, in which the Allied forces used spies and double agents to deceive the Nazis about their true plans for D-Day.
“Throw- Author: Barone, Rebecca E. F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1250345561
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Fashion: More Than 50 Iconic Looks and the Stories Behind Them
$27.50 Read moreTransport yourself to the exuberance and glamour of elite American society in the 1870s, ’80s, and ’90s, when influential families like the Vanderbilts, Astors and Rockefellers hosted, attended, and d
- Author: Block, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1964786061
- Language: English
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Native to This Land: A History of Indigenous Rights in North America
$14.99 Read moreHundreds of Indigenous nations call North America home–and have since before the countries that make up the continent formed.
Indigenous peoples across North America have experienced centuries of s
- Series: Spotlight on Social Justice
- Author: Bruegl, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765684924
- Language: English
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The Art of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists, 1700-1900
$35.00 Read moreStrikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the ast
- Author: Himmel, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1419777254
- Language: English
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Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science
$30.00 Read moreBased on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed both health care and politics in America
For nearly a century, every Democratic pr- Author: Blumenthal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300263481
- Language: English
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A Protest History of the United States
$21.95 Add to cartExploring 500 years of protest and resistance in US history–and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world
In this timely new book in Beacon’s suc- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Browne-Marshall, Gloria J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0807022683
- Language: English
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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
$39.99 Read moreAlthough the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its “p
- Author: Fisher, Linford D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1324094958
- Language: English
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Europe: A New History
$35.00 Read moreA bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture?- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 154160380X
- Language: English
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From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
$30.00 Read moreOne neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval.
Karagumruk, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for its chea- Author: Hansen, Suzy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0374298432
- Language: English
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Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America and How to Defeat It for Good
$32.99 Read more“An alarm bell announcing that the American house is on fire.” –STEPHEN KING
“A comprehensive work on fascism and America’s democracy.” –BOB WOODWARD
“A provocative and passionate reminder that dem
- Author: Aziz, Omer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889836643
- Language: English
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
$49.99 Read moreTo those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambri
- Author: Smith, Mark B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498290
- Language: English
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The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World
$32.00 Read moreA lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America’s first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an ins… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1668094878
- Language: English
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Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation
$19.99 Read moreCommemorate the innumerable ways the African American community has shaped the foundation of the United States in this stunning, poetic picture book from the Caldecott Honor-winning team behind Freedo… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217031856
- Language: English
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After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order
$35.00 Read moreFrom a prizewinning writer, a sweeping global history of the birth of nation-states and the consequences of their failure, for readers of Thomas Piketty and Timothy Snyder
The system of nation-states- Author: Dasgupta, Rana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0399563679
- Language: English
