History & Military
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. III: Louis XIV to the Brink of World War I, A.D. 1661 – 1914
$64.99 Add to cartThis third volume of Conrad Black’s magnificent series opens with the assumption of direct rule by Louis XIV of France and covers the great sweep of history with the rise of Russia, the decline of the
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1966833091
- Language: English
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Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
$31.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and historian Emma Southon, a groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped … [more below]
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1668089556
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Read moreThis brilliant distillation traces Turkey’s long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Fortna, Benjamin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031232
- Language: English
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A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded
$29.95 Add to cartA revised and expanded edition of the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present
In this new edition of A Queer History of the Un- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Bronski, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0807023485
- Language: English
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A Bite-Sized History of Italy: Gastronomic Tales of the Roman Empire, Renaissance, and Republic
$27.99 Add to cartA compelling exploration into the rich tapestry of Italian food history and culture, from the Roman Empire to today, by the co-host of the top-ranked Gola food and wine podcast
Though a relatively youn… [more below]- Author: Callegari, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1620979233
- Language: English
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Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America
$30.00 Add to cartIn its early years, Rolling Stone stood out on the magazine rack: an iconoclastic bimonthly aimed at young Americans, dedicated to music, culture, and politics. Magazine cofounder Jann Wenner’s vision
- Author: Ponce de Leon, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1469694395
- Language: English
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The Grand Canyon: Native People and Early Visitors
$23.99 Add to cartUnlike appreciating America’s other natural wonders such as waterfalls, glaciers, mountains, or prairies, one must struggle to absorb, assimilate, and comprehend the Grand Canyon’s tremendous scale. C… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Shields Jr, Kenneth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0738500313
- Language: English
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The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101252
- Language: English
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Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza
$17.95 Read moreA heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homeland
The human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been
- Author: Kanafani, Hassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1834050324
- Language: English
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America, Am?rica: A New History of the New World
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller – A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – Named … [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593831276
- Language: English
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The Roman World War: From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide
$35.00 Add to cartHow the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar’s heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of Rome
The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has o- Author: Traina, Giusto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0691257876
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
$22.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER INDIE BESTSELLER The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2025
From “one of America’s smartest and most charmin- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0316496537
- Language: English
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A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America
$38.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic history that shows how the quest to worship freely became one of the nation’s most vexing tensions, shaping life for believers and nonbelievers alike
Ever since conquistadores claimed
- Author: Wilensky-Lanford, Brook
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0802167349
- Language: English
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Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
$35.00 Read moreFrom the author of the international bestseller Beyond the Wall, a history of interwar Germany told through the town of Weimar, the cultural capital that was both the birthplace of the country’s first… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1541605799
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Eaton Square: Sex, Scandal, and Infamy on the Road to Buckingham Palace
$31.00 Add to cartWindsor biographer Alexander Larman takes you behind the doors of Eaton Square, London’s most sought-after address.
In the classic PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, the aristocratic Bellamy family lived- Author: Larman, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381258
- Language: English
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The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars
$32.00 Read moreThe prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America’s culture wars-a story of late 20th century art vs. censorship, brimming with intense drama and fierce moral urgency.
It- Author: Butler, Isaac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733493
- Language: English
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How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information
$26.99 Read moreWhen world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney “lost” both his parents, he began thinking of how information–all the stuff that makes us, that we make, and that we leave behind–ultimately disappears
- Author: Mullaney, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1324020784
- Language: English
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Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
$32.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nation’s beginnings and c… [more below]
- Author: Kiernan, Denise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0593183436
- Language: English
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The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery
$35.00 Read moreThe remarkable untold story of a network of amateur researchers who debunked the Warren Report, raising questions about JFK’s assassination that remain unanswered to this day–a riveting history of ob… [more below]
- Author: Tiffany, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0593728629
- Language: English
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Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
$19.95 Add to cartWith more than 200 illustrations by the author.
- Author: Tunis, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 158574137X
- Language: English
