Historical
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Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
$15.95 Add to cartIn September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating an
- Author: Last, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 184668000X
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
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Back to Bremen
$14.99 Add to cartEdith R pke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously….
It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, the city of Bremen holds its breath with quiet unease.
- Author: Wilson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1633732533
- Language: English
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
$39.95 Add to cartWilliam Morris–the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer–remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopi
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1604862432
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Denis Julien: Fur Trader
$11.50 Add to cartDenis Julien’s first biographer in 1933 called him the “Mysterious D. Julien” because so little was known about him. He was surmised to have been a fur trapper along the Green and Colorado Rivers in t
- Author: Knipmeyer, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: August 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1593309481
- Language: English
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The Fourth Guardsman: James Franklin “Bud” Ledbetter (1852-1937)
$22.95 Add to cartDuring the 1890s and past the turn of the century, the land of the Five Civilized Tribes (roughly the eastern half of present day Oklahoma, known as the Indian Territory) was a volcanic society ravage… [more below]
- Author: Shirley, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685669
- Language: English
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Suncoast Empire: Bertha Honore Palmer, Her Family, and the Rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982
$18.95 Add to cartBertha Palmer, one of the richest and most famous socialites in the early 20th century, came to a backwater area of southwest Florida and tried her hand at agriculture and cattle raising. She turned S… [more below]
- Author: Cassell, Frank a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649856
- Language: English
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Get Carter: Backstage in History from JFK’s Assassination to the Rolling Stones
$19.95 Add to cartFor most of his life, Bill Carter has been hearing two words that either struck fear in his heart or caused it to race for an entirely different reason: Get Carter. Early in his career, this Arkansas … [more below]
- Author: Carter, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0977460428
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: Volume 114
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the later fifth and early sixth centuries the most creative developments in Eastern Christian monasticism occurred not in Egypt or in Syria, but in Palestine, through the work of St Euthymius
- Series: Cistercian Studies #114
- Author: Cyril of Scythopolis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0879079142
- Language: English
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The Poetic Justice: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartThis inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black–and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest–justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the com
- Author: Thomas, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0813947839
- Language: English
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Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
$21.95 Add to cartWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #7
- Author: Riley, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806135069
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels A’Rollin’
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Ackley, Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0595744230
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
$18.99 Add to cartThe thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe.
From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spi- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316387894
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Alexander I
$44.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0875804667
- Language: English
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
$63.00 Add to cartThis richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
- Author: Westfall, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 29 1983
- ISBN10: 0521274354
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$41.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893
$33.99 Add to cartThe scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government
An engrossing ferry to 19th century America, Benjamin Harrison is sure to capture every political enthusiast’s attention. Join Char- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Calhoun, Charles W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069526
- Language: English
