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Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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A Brief History of America
The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
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The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the
From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth centuryIn Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta...
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white...
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Services
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white...
Michelle Obama In Her Own Words
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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
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The Loveliest Home That Ever Was: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by Jose de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new...
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His...
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized
Looking for a precedent that eased the way for "civilized" people to embrace fascism in the twentieth-century, Hannah Arendt found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule,...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New...
William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times
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Author: Albert E. CastelBinding: SoftbackPublished: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the life and legacy of William Clarke Quantrill, a controversial...
Canadian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Canada, French and Indian War, Klondike Gold Rush, and Quebec
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Author: Captivating HistoryBinding: SoftbackPublished: Captivating History, 2023Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book offers a captivating exploration of Canadian history, covering significant events such as the French...
Atlas of Ancient America
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Author: Elizabeth Benson, Dean Snow, Michael CoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Facts On File, Incorporated, 1987, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive atlas provides a detailed overview of the ancient...
From Maine to Mexico: With America's Private Pilots in the Fight Against Nazi U-Boats
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Author: Louis E. KeeferBinding: HardbackPublished: C O T U Pub, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the experiences of America's private pilots during World...
The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy 1941-1966
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Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Binding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1967Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the complex relationship between the United States and Vietnam during a...
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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Author: Dean AchesonBinding: HardbackPublished: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969, Fourth PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn this memoir, Dean Acheson reflects on his experiences in the...
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux
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Author: Fanny KellyBinding: HardbackPublished: Konecky & Konecky, 1990Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis memoir recounts the harrowing experiences of Fanny Kelly, an American pioneer woman who was captured...
Monitor: the Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Charged the Course of History
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Author: James Tertius DekayBinding: SoftbackPublished: Walker Co, 1997, Third PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOn March 9 1862, an epic battle was fought that not only affected...
Panama and What it Means
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Author: John Foster FraserBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1914, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive account of Panama, exploring its history, culture, and...
The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series)
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Author: Foote, ShelbyBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis volume covers the pivotal events leading up to the final stages of the Civil War,...
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
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Author: Bob WoodwardBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 2006Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'State of Denial', Bob Woodward provides a detailed and revealing account of the Bush administration's...
Hillary Rising: The Politics, persona and policies of a new American dynasty
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I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition
With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the
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A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition...
America's Constitution: A Biography
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Negroland: A Memoir
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:
The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York
On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their...