History & Military
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Read moreIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre d
- Author: Debuys, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0826353428
- Language: English
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The Gramercy Park Hotel: A New York Icon
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Roaring Twenties to a Rock ‘N’ Roll Landmark
Since it opened in 1925, the Gramercy Park Hotel has always been one of New York’s premiere cultural hotspots. Early in its history it served as th
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Weissberg, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1467158844
- Language: English
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The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story
$21.95 Add to cartAn inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew
In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, pa- Author: Denetclaw, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0816556164
- Language: English
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave Paperback
$4.95 Add to cart- Author: Lynch, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: December 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1930097220
- Language: English
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The History Book
$21.99 Add to cartLearn about the origins of our species and all things revolution in The History Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follo- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: Dk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593966775
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
$22.95 Add to cart“[An] extraordinary book.”–Brian Eno – “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”–Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir – “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work o
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Yurchak, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284482
- Language: English
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Lost in the Yellowstone: Thirty-Seven Days of Peril and a Handwritten Account of Being Lost
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1870, Truman Everts visited what would two years later become Yellowstone National Park, traveling with an exploration party intent on mapping and investigating that mysterious region. Scattered re
- Author: Everts, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1607814293
- Language: English
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African Americans of Hanover County, Virginia
$24.99 Read moreFrom farmers to pastors, teachers to sailors, and everything in between, the Black history of Hanover County reflects the dedication and values of the community.
Freedwoman Betsy Hogg Tinsley, in time
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Gorman, Joe B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1467158976
- Language: English
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Cicero: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of great social, political, and cultu- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Baraz, Yelena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 0192885804
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
$27.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus’s arrival in the Bahamas in 1492.
A Brief History of the Carib- Author: Rogozinski, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0452281938
- Language: English
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Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America
$32.95 Add to cartWith radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo-Gilded Age billionaires, B
- Author: Lewis, Randolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496244850
- Language: English
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The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings
$29.99 Add to cartThis wide-ranging collection of important documents, speeches, legal rulings, and other writings shaped the United States into what it is today.
The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is a collectio- Series: Leather-Bound Classics
- Author: Editors of Canterbury Classics
- Binding: Leather
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1667211609
- Language: English
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A Sleepy Town Awakens: The Civil Rights Movement in the Town of Plaquemine 1963
$20.95 Add to cart“When we catch Farmer, we’re going to lynch him.” On a warm night in Plaquemine, Louisiana, September 1, 1963, two young black girls heard State Troopers utter these words. What was later coined “Plaq
- Author: Canova, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1977288472
- Language: English
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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
$22.00 Add to cartThis “indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist moveme… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 198214422X
- Language: English
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A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
$31.00 Add to cartA revelatory new look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day–July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adop… [more below]
- Author: Rasenberger, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668003422
- Language: English
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Rebels in the Wild
$18.99 Add to cartRebels in the Wild: The Equality Colony and the Taming of American Capitalism tells the forgotten but still relevant story of the rise and fall of a radical experiment in socialism in the Pacific Nort
- Author: Burns, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994055809
- Language: English
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Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
$35.00 Add to cartA moving and harrowing portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy, and a people’s undying spirit of … [more below]
- Author: Torbati, Yeganeh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0385550316
- Language: English
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To Love a Country: The Problem of Patriotism in America
$33.00 Add to cartOn the eve of America’s 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country.
As the battle over American democracy plays out on the country’s stree- Author: Erdozain, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217087174
- Language: English
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The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building
$35.00 Add to cartAn in-depth exploration of history of the US Capitol building and the incredible personalities who built it, full of dramatic stories, surprising facts, and offering a powerful testament to what the C… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593185005
- Language: English
