Social History
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The Good Old Days– They Were Terrible!
$18.00 Add to cartThe Good Old Days–were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so–especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900… [more below]
- Author: Bettmann, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394709411
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Brewtown Tales: More Stories from Milwaukee and Beyond
$24.95 Read moreJohn Gurda’s South Side Milwaukee family loved potluck dinners. “From the Jell-O salads at the start of the line through the hot dishes in the middle and on to the pumpkin bars at the end, the food wa… [more below]
- Author: Gurda, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 087020999X
- Language: English
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
$22.00 Read moreOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the fol
- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036117
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
$40.00 Read moreLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection
- Author: Usher, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1838853170
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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The Anatomists’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body
$40.00 Read moreThe Anatomist’s Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.
There i- Series: Liber Historica #4
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0711280746
- Language: English
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Beaufort
$24.99 Read moreBeaufort, South Carolina, the Palmetto State’s second-oldest town, is a paradigm of the Low Country.
Historic mansions overlook the bay with century-old oaks standing sentinel. Visitors to Beaufort fee
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cooper, Polly Wylly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0738515221
- Language: English
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El Futuro Recordado / The Remembered Future
$17.95 Read more«Los libros de Irene Vallejo, claros e inteligentes, se leen muy bien e invitan a pensar. En la mejor línea humanista. -CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL
La aparente contradicción que da título a este lib- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820968
- Language: Spanish
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99 Read moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English
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The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People
$29.99 Read moreA Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 BestsellerA Waterstones Travel Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year
What kind of country is England today?
What does it mean to be English?
Are we
- Author: Maconie, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008498261
- Language: English
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Culture
$18.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw
“Jon Meacham and Tim- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593132955
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
$18.99 Read moreWith this “impeccable” (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cu
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496247
- Language: English
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The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
$32.50 Read moreInsiders call it the Craft. Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society.
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men… [more below]- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 161039867X
- Language: English
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Marching to a Silent Tune: A Journey from We Shall to Hell No
$19.95 Read moreMarching to a Silent Tune is a childhood to young adult look at a complicated journey to social consciousness, civil liberties, war resistance and peace activism within the social and military environ… [more below]
- Author: Gerald R Gioglio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0879467010
- Language: English
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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
$30.00 Read moreA journalist delves into the history, science, and practice of fasting, an ancient cure enjoying a dynamic resurgence.
When should we eat, and when shouldn’t we? The answers to these simple questions- Author: Hendricks, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1419748475
- Language: English
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Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the Nfl’s Only Perfect Season
$22.00 Read moreThe definitive chronicle of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only undefeated team in NFL history–from award-winning literary sportswriter Marshall Jon Fisher.
The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to pr- Author: Fisher, Marshall Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1419748513
- Language: English
