United States - History
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A Place Called America: A Story of the Land and People
$22.99 Read moreThrough the lens of the land that has come to be known as America, award-winning picture book creator Jennifer Thermes captures centuries of history.
A Place Called America takes the long view of the- Author: Thermes, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1419743899
- Language: English
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National Monuments of the USA
$30.00 Add to cartTravel through America’s incredible history and amazing wild places, visiting the National Monuments that celebrate the most iconic and majestic landscapes and locations in the USA.
*2023 School Libra- Series: National Parks of the USA #4
- Author: Walker, Cameron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711265496
- Language: English
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The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
$19.99 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter — in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world — backed by the United States. In- Author: Bevins, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724003
- Language: English
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
$33.00 Add to cartA “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become o… [more below]
- Author: Mundy, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238176
- Language: English
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON’S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS
- Author: Harriot, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0358439167
- Language: English
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
$35.00 Read moreNational Bestseller
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction – Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History – Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction Name- Author: Blackhawk, Ned
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244053
- Language: English
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Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
$79.99 Add to cartWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear,… [more below]
- Author: McClay, Wilfred M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1594039372
- Language: English
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A Young People’s History of the United States: Revised and Updated
$45.00 Add to cartA Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and… [more below]
- Series: For Young People
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212501
- Language: English
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The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Washington’s Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, Massachusetts
On the sto
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0802156908
- Language: English
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
$22.00 Add to cartWith shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left t… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0307389006
- Language: English
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History of Alcatraz Island: 1853-2008
$24.99 Read moreAs one of America s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California s history for over 155 years. The small, lonely rock, known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wellman, Gregory L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 02, 2008
- ISBN10: 073855815X
- Language: English
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
$23.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA’s secret paramilitary units.
Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a tra- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316441422
- Language: English
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The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
$32.00 Add to cartA war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.
The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is p- Author: Rudd, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701291
- Language: English
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Men of the 65th: The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
$19.99 Read moreHonor and Fidelity. That is the motto of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers, the only Puerto Rican unit in the United States Army.
Since the regiment’s creation in 1899, the
- Author: Aikens-Nuñez, Talia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1728479142
- Language: English
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
$18.95 Add to cartBefore the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders–particularly Jefferson, Madison, and … [more below]
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 039333032X
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.
The Declaration o- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002477
- Language: English
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The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
$18.99 Read moreThis revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy… [more below]
- Author: London, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0306847310
- Language: English
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These Truths: A History of the United States
$19.95 Add to cartWidely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself–a devotion to facts, proof, and e
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357422
- Language: English
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
$19.99 Read moreCreated at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arli
- Author: Poole, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0802715494
- Language: English
