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The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America
$19.99 Add to cartRead here the storied history of these United States.
The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of th
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1595555668
- Language: English
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Death, Daring, and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks
$23.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic account of search and rescue in the national parks from 1870 to the present. New edition contains SAR from 1998-2004.
- Author: Farabee Jr, Charles R. Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1589791827
- Language: English
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
$30.99 Add to cart“Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion.”
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before,
-Los Angeles Times Book Review- Author: Jacoby, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 417
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077766
- Language: English
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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
$15.99 Add to cartEverything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong
Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country
- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470643897
- Language: English
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Reynolds Pamphlet
$4.99 Add to cartThe Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilto
- Series: Mint Editions–Historical Documents and Treaties
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1513295616
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
$19.95 Add to cart“Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic.” —Publishers Weekly
Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Ti- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History #2
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1523085940
- Language: English
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Doodlebugs and Dowsers: A History of Unusual Ways to Search for Oil
$27.95 Add to cartWhat lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether searchi
- Author: Plazak, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1682831779
- Language: English
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the- Author: Hofstadter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703170
- Language: English
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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
$27.99 Add to cartIn a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levee
- Author: Doyle, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356612
- Language: English
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Name… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Stewart, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172736
- Language: English
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A History of the United States for Newcomers
$24.99 Add to cartToday, more than 50 million people living in the USA were born in another country. That is more people than the entire population of Canada, and all of them have faced or will face challenges as they
- Author: Serocold, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891092044
- Language: English
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Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South
$29.99 Add to cartIn this biography of the chief architect of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Fawn Brodie seeks to explain the basis for his actions, the nature of his economic radicalism, and the emotional forces … [more below]
- Author: Brodie, Fawn McKay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: April 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0393003310
- Language: English
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Cartoon History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartWhat? You don’t know what a Burgess is? — You can’t outline the Monroe Doctrine? — Recall the 14th Amendment? — Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik?
Then you need The Cartoon Hist… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0062730983
- Language: English
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One Night in Salem
$18.00 Add to cartONE NIGHT IN SALEM
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WITCH
BY TROY TAYLOR
Witchcraft came to America with the first European settlers. They came here and brought with them their histories and traditions
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1958589047
- Language: English
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Wonders of the USA
$12.99 Add to cartIn Wonders of the USA, readers explore caves and rivers, visit national parks and view historic buildings. Shine a flashlight behind the page or hold it to the light to reveal what is hidden in and ar… [more below]
- Series: Shine-A-Light
- Author: Brown, Carron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610675436
- Language: English
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A Reverence for Wood
$9.99 Add to cartRefreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity – from the crafting of furniture, tools, and b… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: June 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964740
- Language: English
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
$20.00 Read moreCrap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much c… [more below]
- Author: Woloson, Wendy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824071
- Language: English
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
$18.95 Read moreIn this “magnificent compendium” (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing “illuminate[s] the history of America itsel
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492500
- Language: English
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The Story of American Freedom
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America’s strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner tak… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319628
- Language: English
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Smith & Wesson
$40.99 Add to cartHorace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson shared a dream of manufacturing a firearm that could fire repeatedly, using a new and self-contained cartridge. In 1852, the dream became a reality with the foundi… [more below]
- Author: Jinks, Roy G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1531627609
- Language: English
