History & Military
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
$17.99 Add to cartOnce Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial
- Author: Townsend, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 006199720X
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
$39.99 Add to cartNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unra
- Author: Barnes, Rhae Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496344
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family
$38.00 Add to cartA spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia–among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France–tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal … [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Veronica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561900
- Language: English
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Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms
$32.99 Add to cartThe award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.
Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the Am
- Author: Bennett, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063418177
- Language: English
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Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans
$35.00 Read moreA magisterial, groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them–and their hard-won political knowledge–rightly at the center of the fight for… [more below]
- Author: O’Donovan, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593657047
- Language: English
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The Journal of H?l?ne Berr: A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris
$17.99 Read more“At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document” SIMONE WEIL
From April 1942 to March 1944, H?- Author: Berr, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1906694192
- Language: English
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G.I. G-Men: The Untold Story of the Fbi’s Search for American Traitors, Collaborators, and Spies in World War II Europe
$29.00 Add to cartThe explosive, untold true story of the band of patriotic FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II and later investigated war criminals in the lead… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544139
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$27.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartAn “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance–both nonviolent and violent–to white supremacy
Named a Best B- Author: Carter Jackson, Kellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1541601599
- Language: English
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War from the Rear: A Ukrainian Aid Volunteer’s Story
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful collection of essays, writer Andriy Lyubka-thrust into the role of an unlikely volunte
- Series: Ukrainian Studies
- Author: Lyubka, Andriy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887198408
- Language: English
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Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War Against America’s Bombers
$40.00 Add to cartThe story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II.
The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die ca- Author: Forsyth, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472862864
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
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Sweaty Stories from the Cleveland Schvitz
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Joshua Womack tells the story of those who lived, breathed and sweated in one of Cleveland’s most iconic landmarks. In Cleveland, there’s a place where sweat, steak and friendship collide. Tuck
- Author: Womack, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 146715914X
- Language: English
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Caf? Europa: Life After Communism
$27.00 Add to cart“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” –Gloria Steinem
Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been repla- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140277722
- Language: English
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Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
$19.00 Add to cartA pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history vi- Author: Olsson, Tore C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250895685
- Language: English
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Abandoned Central Indiana: Hidden Treasures and Intriguing Gems
$24.99 Read moreShowcases photographs of derelict homes, factories, asylums, and trains, offering a visual journey through the region’s faded industrial and historical legacy.
The book features photos of abandoned hom… [more below]
- Author: Humphrey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994469
- Language: English
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Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
$34.95 Add to cartThe story of John Dunn Hunter’s remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.
John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, t
- Author: Doolen, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1421453282
- Language: English
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The First Battle of Manassas
$19.95 Add to cartOn July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of … [more below]
- Author: Hennessy, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0811715914
- Language: English
