Historical
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Unshackled: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartNo child should have to grow up and become an adult and still be tortured by the trauma of their past. For years, even into my adulthood, I was constantly dealing with my past–the hurt, the dysfuncti
- Author: Ivey, Horace Leon, Sr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: June 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891126084
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thir… [more below]
- Author: Yi, Henry Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1602397325
- Language: English
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Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
$16.95 Add to cartA biographical study of Patrick Henry, whose “”Give me liberty of give me death”” speech in 1775 at the second Virginia Convention has inspired since than all who treasure freedom. This book goes beyo… [more below]
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Vaughan, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1581823231
- Language: English
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James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price
$15.95 Add to cartJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family’s Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1577363329
- Language: English
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Agatha Tiegel Hanson: Our Places in the Sun
$29.95 Read moreAgatha Tiegel Hanson (1873-1959) is regarded as a seminal figure in Deaf history for her writing, advocacy, and leadership, though her accomplishments merit recognition within the larger context of Am
- Author: Jankowski, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: August 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1954622155
- Language: English
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When the Rivers Flowed
$18.95 Add to cartSet in the early twentieth century, this riveting tale follows Marie Little and Earl Layman, who left different parts of Appalachia to better themselves in Knoxville, Tennessee. It explores events cen… [more below]
- Author: Mascaro, Marilyn Layman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146173
- Language: English
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One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time
$17.95 Add to cartA time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page.
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways an- Author: Marchant, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914613554
- Language: English
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The Sleeping Lady
$11.99 Add to cartGazing across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, Alaska, people have imagined that the sprawling peak across the inlet is a slumbering woman. Out of this idyllic landscape, has come a tale about a time of pea… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0882404954
- Language: English
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- Language: English
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Tejano Tiger: Jose de Los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
$29.95 Add to cartRiding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benav… [more below]
- Series: Texas Biography
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: February 24 2017
- ISBN10: 087565407X
- Language: English
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Constantine the Great: And the Christian Revolution
$23.95 Add to cartRevered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story of Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire.
- Author: Baker, G. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411588
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Survival in the Killing Fields
$25.99 Add to cartNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am,” says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he… [more below]
- Author: Ngor, Haing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0786713151
- Language: English
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
$20.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0743264673
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Bread on My Mother’s Table: A Danube Swabian Remembers
$16.95 Add to cartCan the world accept ethnic Germans as victims of World War II? Are there similarities in the Holocausts that the Jews and the ethnic Germans suffered? Will Germans always be perceived as stereotypica… [more below]
- Author: Andor, Ingrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0595466729
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the po
- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0547336047
- Language: English
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
$43.68 Add to cart“King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history.”–The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary fi- Author: Nelson, Janet L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 520314204
- Language: English
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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
$24.99 Add to cartOleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. … [more below]
- Author: Kalugin, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0465014453
- Language: English
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The Way of Duty
$25.99 Add to cartThe Buels have used a rich trove of documents to tell the story of a Connecticut woman, Mary Fish Silliman (1736-1818), whose adventures illuminate the day-to-day realities of living through the Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Buel, Joy Day
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312100
- Language: English
