Social History
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Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
$30.00 Read moreA pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age
Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one t
- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063484323
- Language: English
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Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency
$27.99 Read moreFrom the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing ente
- Author: Garber, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063415690
- Language: English
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How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession
$29.95 Read moreA cultural history of the phenomenon of the ‘haunted house’ as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.
What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being pa- Author: Blackwell Baines, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100781
- Language: English
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Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World
$28.95 Add to cartA spirited exploration of the diary, from pen-and-paper to TikTok, for the people who write–and read–them
Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor- Author: Rubiner, Betsy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807014923
- Language: English
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Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
$29.95 Add to cartA fascinating history of female rulers across time and across the world
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was- Author: Norton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1804441139
- Language: English
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The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool
$32.00 Read moreA dramatic narrative telling the story behind the running and marathon boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, featuring the stories of Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Grete Waitz,… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217178483
- Language: English
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Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age
$30.00 Read moreOne of The Daily Telegraph‘s Greatest Books of 2025
A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history. Winter Dreams is an evocative hi- Author: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390912
- Language: English
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Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
$16.99 Add to cartAccording to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn’t look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel — from brass buttons to blue jean
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0618381880
- Language: English
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The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
$22.99 Add to cartDiscover the “convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history of the world’s oldest and most influential fraternity
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of bindin- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704681
- Language: English
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Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
$27.50 Add to cartSons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain- Author: Das, Joanna Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828409
- Language: English
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The Conversion of Europe
$16.99 Add to cartThe story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from one of the most gif
- Author: Fletcher, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: September 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0006863027
- Language: English
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School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife
$25.00 Add to cartWhy school yearbooks–as frivolous and cringey as they are–are far more than just objects of nostalgia.
We’re all familiar with the embarrassment that washes over us when recalling our high school- Author: Eichhorn, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 022680951X
- Language: English
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
$24.00 Add to cartFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism–and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentri… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983890
- Language: English
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Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993-2023
$19.95 Add to cartIn this unique book, Irish women who stayed living on the island, who did not emigrate, describe their lives and perspectives on a dramatically changed social context from the 1990s to 2023. We hear t… [more below]
- Author: B. O’Carroll Ãde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1782050809
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love
$26.95 Add to cartA journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable works
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five- Author: Lewin, Katie Da Cunha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0691283834
- Language: English
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Iconic Jersey Tomatoes, An American Folklife and Foodway
$28.00 Add to cartIf terroir sets the place for culture, and seeds are nature’s intersection that allows for folklife and foodway, then Iconic Jersey Tomatoes, An American Folklife and Foodway by Jeff Quattrone is the
- Author: Quattrone, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218750084
- Language: English
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Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality
$30.00 Add to cart‘[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book…Mount makes for a delightful guide’ — Literary Review
From troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned- Author: Mount, Ferdinand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1399421883
- Language: English
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War from the Rear: A Ukrainian Aid Volunteer’s Story
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful collection of essays, writer Andriy Lyubka-thrust into the role of an unlikely volunte
- Series: Ukrainian Studies
- Author: Lyubka, Andriy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887198408
- Language: English
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The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art
$32.00 Add to cartAn irresistible and enchanting journey through human history–from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones–that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.
Joan Didion told us,
- Author: Ashton, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0063438690
- Language: English
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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear–bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression–in the back room of their Brooklyn candy
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105283
- Language: English
