Historical
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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
$29.99 Add to cartGeneral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South’s first victory–Manassas in July 1861–and at its last–Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered h… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311309
- Language: English
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
$21.99 Add to cartIn this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny — both British and American. Remembere… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820463
- Language: English
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Einstein: The Man and His Mind
$70.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented visual biography of the iconic pioneer of modern physics, with signed photographs, letters, manuscripts and more
A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of
- Author: Berger, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087845
- Language: English
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From Behind the Screen: How a Brash Young Man from Jim Crow New Orleans Became a Civil Rights Leader in Texas
$23.50 Read moreIt was into the native creole culture of New Orleans and Louisiana that Curtis Graves was born. This is unique mixture of former slaves, free people of color, American Indians and Europeans – all in j… [more below]
- Author: Graves, Curtis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0935437614
- Language: English
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Glenn Miller Declassified
$29.95 Add to cartOn December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere ove
- Author: Spragg, Dennis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123083
- Language: English
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Woman Of Many Names
$27.99 Add to cartWoman of Many Names is a deeper look into a woman who helped shaped the history of our Nation. Nancy Ward had ties to Daniel Boone and George Washington, including having saved the latter’s life (and,
- Author: Yates, Debra S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1943496080
- Language: English
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Abigail Adams: A Life
$22.99 Add to cartIn this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time in a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story a
- Author: Holton, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546812
- Language: English
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William and Jean Herrick, Pioneering New Mexicans: The Herrick Family in Words and Photographs, Early 1900s New Mexico
$26.95 Add to cart“Over one hundred years ago to get from Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Mount Vernon, Ohio, to New Mexico, you had to walk, ride or drive a team of horses or board a train.” So opens thi
- Author: Spiller, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1632933713
- Language: English
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Monkey Boulevard
$16.99 Add to cartAs displaced persons after World War II, the Piech Family chose not to return to their home in Poland, but continued from an army camp in Italy, to a Polish Dependents camp in England, finally immigra
- Author: Hikel, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988417118
- Language: English
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Lee
$23.99 Add to cartDouglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and hi… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684829533
- Language: English
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
$19.95 Add to cartNOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter Journey
Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany’s Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of G?uml;nther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courage
- Author: Goldsmith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0471078646
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an- Author: Weber, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427344
- Language: English
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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Life Fighting: Why We Must Sometimes Fight, and How to Do So Well
$15.75 Add to cartFighting has gotten a bad name; it should not be so. Fighting itself is neither moral nor immoral; only its object can be said to be so. We may count the ability to fight well, when applied to a just
- Author: Sweet, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: February 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0578840375
- Language: English
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Savarkar
$32.95 Read moreAs the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers an
- Author: Sampath, Vikram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0670090301
- Language: English
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Little Lodges on the Prairie: Freemasonry & Laura Ingalls Wilder
$33.33 Add to cartThe Little House on the Prairie books and TV show have inspired generations, but few people know the history of the Ingalls family in Freemasonry.
Why did they join this mysterious organization, and wh
- Author: Lynn, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1950481174
- Language: English
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Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
$14.95 Add to cartAlan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old
- Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
- Author: Haft, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0815611196
- Language: English
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Los Niños de Irena / Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2.500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
$17.95 Read moreTilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versi?n femenina de Oskar S… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 607315089X
- Language: Spanish
