History & Military
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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear–bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression–in the back room of their Brooklyn candy
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105283
- Language: English
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Grandeza / Greatness
$22.95 Add to cart“Amigos, amigas, les presento el primero, referente a la grandeza cultural de M?xico”
Pretendo reivindicar con este libro la vigencia del M?xico profundo y sus civilizaciones originales, sometidas y
- Author: López Obrador, Andrés Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 6073938586
- Language: Spanish
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century.
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown tog- Author: Vinen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668064847
- Language: English
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The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
$24.00 Add to cartWhy has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and fina
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881822
- Language: English
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America 250 All-In-One for Dummies
$39.99 Add to cartDiscover (or rediscover!) America’s history and how it’s shaped the United States today
On July 4, 2026, the United States is going to celebrate its semi-quincentennial–the 250 years since the signin
- Author: The Experts at Dummies
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 139441000X
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.
Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and em- Author: Cleghorn, Elinor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593472705
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
$35.99 Add to cartOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions
- Author: Rood, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498371
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
$32.95 Add to cartThis book identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.
- Series: Gulf Publishing Field Guides
- Author: Turner, Ellen Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0891230513
- Language: English
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The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds
$33.00 Add to cart“A definitive history of bird conservation in America.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred)
From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land’s natural resources were infinite, includ- Author: McCommons, James H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1250286891
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece
$55.00 Add to cartA cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps of England and Wales.
Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in
- Author: Fletcher, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1851246207
- Language: English
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Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan
$24.95 Add to cartLooking down from outer space a vast expanse of blue appears in the heart of North America. Of the magnificent chain of inland seas, only one of those bodies of water–Lake Michigan–is entirely withi… [more below]
- Author: Karamanski, Theodore J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0472040065
- Language: English
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Central Pacific 1943-45: Seventh Air Force’s Island-Hopping War
$25.00 Add to cartThe little-known history of the Hawaii-based Seventh Air Force’s war as it fought in all the major island campaigns from the Gilberts and Marshalls to the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Rebuilt afte- Series: Air Campaign #57
- Author: Herder, Brian Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1472864875
- Language: English
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The Killing of Jane McCrea: An American Tragedy on the Revolutionary Frontier
$29.95 Add to cartThe killing of Jane McCrea on July 26, 1777, on the outskirts of a village in the northern Hudson Valley, would unexpectedly rupture the British advance from Canada that was meant to crush the America… [more below]
- Author: Staiti, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1594164460
- Language: English
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Vigilante Days & Ways: Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Langford, Nathaniel P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1560378506
- Language: English
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Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada’s Sweetest Obsession
$25.99 Add to cartThe captivating story behind Canada’s beloved sweet treat
From the quiet beauty of sugar maple forests to the high-tech, high-stakes world of syrup production, this book takes you on a remarkable jour- Author: Kuitenbrouwer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0385698186
- Language: English
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The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind’s Greatest Adventures
$19.99 Add to cartThe greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.
The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew’s harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus,
- Author: Anderson, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0718034961
- Language: English
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
$26.00 Add to cart* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a t- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0525559434
- Language: English
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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
$27.00 Add to cartIn this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coal… [more below]
- Author: Nash, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 014303720X
- Language: English
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A Social History of Maoist China
$49.58 Add to cartWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to ‘turn society upside down’. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. Th… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Asian History
- Author: Wemheuer, Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1107565502
- Language: English
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Boston, 1776: A Rogue Tour of Revolution City
$29.99 Add to cartRelive the chaos, courage, and color of the American Revolution’s capital city while meeting those who led the fight in the nation’s War of Independence.
Features nine immersive walking tours on seven- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895150177
- Language: English
