Social History
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A People’s History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062397346
- Language: English
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Beard and Moustache Management
$15.95 Read moreDo you know how to trim your whiskers properly?
With beards and moustaches more popular than ever, this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question. And if a trim is not require- Author: Martin, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803990252
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
$24.99 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the “Greenwood District”- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as “The Black Wall Street of America
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1934645389
- Language: English
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
$15.99 Add to cartDick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelon
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0062448714
- Language: English
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
$17.99 Add to cartThis is not a comforting book — it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both “merit” and historical redress as princi… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 5, 2002
- ISBN10: 0684864630
- Language: English
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
$17.99 Add to cart“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricit
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0380715430
- Language: English
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One Summer: America, 1927
$22.00 Add to cartA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newa
A GoodReads Reader’s Choice- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0767919416
- Language: English
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The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Marche, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123222
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$22.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$0.00 Read moreThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 1568585985
- Language: English
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Weird Facts Book for Adults: 365 Funny, Random and True Stories About Everything Interesting for Curious Minds and Lovers of Unusual Knowledge
$8.99 Add to cartDiscover a World That’s Stranger – and Funnier – Than Fiction!
Have you ever wondered why penguins give each other pebbles as love tokens, or how a robot vacuum can accidentally become the star of a co
- Author: Memoirs, Quillscribe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: November 18 2024
- ISBN10: 836829424X
- Language: English
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Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
$35.00 Add to cartA hugely entertaining social history of the elite and exclusive Caribbean island of St. Barth?lemy from the New York Times bestselling author of Model and 740 Park.
St. Barthelemy is revered for its lu
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063410966
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Read moreAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
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Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
$27.95 Add to cartIn this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.
Venezuela in Crisi
- Author: Bean, Anderson M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904640
- Language: English
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Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat – A New Scientist Non-Fiction Book of the Year
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW SCIENTIST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing. Rats are crea- Author: Shute, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 139940251X
- Language: English
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Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball
$18.98 Add to cart- Author: Henkin, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0197789552
- Language: English
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 “A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail- Author: Friss, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593299949
- Language: English
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Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
$37.00 Read more“Provocative . . . essential reading for today’s polarized times.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“This is a brilliant conceit, wonderfully executed. . . . David S. Reynolds has found a new and compelling w- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0593490231
- Language: English
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The Gramercy Park Hotel: A New York Icon
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Roaring Twenties to a Rock ‘N’ Roll Landmark
Since it opened in 1925, the Gramercy Park Hotel has always been one of New York’s premiere cultural hotspots. Early in its history it served as th
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Weissberg, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1467158844
- Language: English
