Social History
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American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
$24.00 Add to cartThere are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass–even centuries–but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses.
From a- Author: Lehto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0425262510
- Language: English
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We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate Giant
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Flint, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1985903067
- Language: English
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Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made
$29.00 Add to cartFor fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America.
M- Author: McCoy, Austin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1668047942
- Language: English
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
$40.00 Add to cartThe author of Britain at Bay–which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”–picks u… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0451494768
- Language: English
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Gods of the Smoke Machine: Power, Pain, and the Rise of Christian Nationalism in the Megachurch
$30.00 Add to cartWe are entering a new era of religion in America: For the first time, fewer than half the country belongs to a church.
But within that group, growing numbers are consolidating in megachurches, which … [more below]- Author: Latta, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890680136
- Language: English
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Cuba: Una Breve Historia
$15.95 Read moreUna concisa y legible perspectiva de Cuba, revisada a fondo y escrita por cubanos para cualquier persona interesada en comprender r?pidamente la turbulenta historia del pa?s insular.
Cuba: una breve h- Author: Vilaboy, Sergio Guerra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644212110
- Language: Spanish
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On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the man that the New York Times calls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a
- Author: Dasgupta, Partha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0063454386
- Language: English
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
$21.99 Add to cart“A remarkable new history” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame–and what we can learn from its embers
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any- Author: Bevins, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541788982
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible
$24.99 Add to cartFans of Jane Austen revel in the visual world that she creates in her novels and early writing, and how she brings the lives of regency women to life. They adore the films and television adaptations a
- Author: Ballaster, Ros
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1035049120
- Language: English
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A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past
$30.00 Add to cartThe author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new ligh
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0063309815
- Language: English
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The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
$22.00 Add to cartA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and tra… [more below]
- Author: Sassoon, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467116
- Language: English
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The Fatal Shore
$24.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today.
“One of the greatest non-fiction b- Author: Hughes, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394753666
- Language: English
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Cuba: A Brief History
$15.95 Read moreA concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.
Cuba: A Brief History covers the pr- Author: Vilaboy, Sergio Guerra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644212099
- Language: English
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The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
$19.99 Add to cartA dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body
What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today’s world of blinding tech- Author: Chang, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891977
- Language: English
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Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York’s Immigrant Restaurant Workers
$29.95 Add to cart27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and endurance show how vital they are to our country
Compiled by a longtime chef who knows h- Author: Meyer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020648
- Language: English
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West
$29.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen–who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin–risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.
After Hitler’s- Author: Pearson, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368582
- Language: English
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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
“Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Sil
Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize- Author: Booth, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1501167111
- Language: English
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All Roads Lead to Hastings-on-Hudson: A History of the Lower Hudson River Valley and New York City
$32.99 Add to cartA definitive history of Hastings-on-Hudson, reflecting the triumphs and challenges of progress within America for over 400 years.
Despite its modest footprint, Hastings-on-Hudson mirrors the growth of
- Author: Lillard, Jonathan Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822977921
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Psychoanalysis
$24.95 Add to cart“An absolutely fascinating book” – Lundimatin
“A reminder of the discipline’s historical links with the struggle for emancipation and against social inequalities” – France Culture
It has been decades s
- Author: Gabarron-Garcia, Florent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745349609
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter in the ‘Gilded Age’
$18.99 Add to cartA fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother – then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette.
Consuelo Vanderbilt was one
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0007127316
- Language: English
