History & Military
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Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home
$31.99 Add to cartAmericans spend, on average, 90 percent of their lives indoors, with two-thirds of that time spent in their homes. Globally, the construction and maintenance of residential buildings account for a sta
- Author: Al, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324065729
- Language: English
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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
$45.00 Add to cart‘This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeed
- Author: McDonough, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1035912481
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is a compelling and illuminating exploration of the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists used fo
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1419786210
- Language: English
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Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World
$28.95 Add to cartA spirited exploration of the diary, from pen-and-paper to TikTok, for the people who write–and read–them
Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor- Author: Rubiner, Betsy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807014923
- Language: English
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the author of How the World Moves A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years, Native Americans have told stories about
- Author: Nabokov, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038818
- Language: English
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Grand Canyon National Park
$24.99 Add to cartArizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World–the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Ratz, Thomas Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0738578568
- Language: English
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The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.
When presumed president-elect Jorge Eli?cer Gait- Author: RamÃrez, Adriana E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1501145207
- Language: English
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Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
$29.95 Add to cartA fascinating history of female rulers across time and across the world
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was- Author: Norton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1804441139
- Language: English
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Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics
- Author: Hayden, Michael Edison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1645030601
- Language: English
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us about Living
$30.00 Add to cartIn this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today
“One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read.”
-Ian Mortimer, author of- Author: Jones, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0385551681
- Language: English
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The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
$28.95 Add to cartDiscover the remarkable birth of modern medicine… and how not to die in the Renaissance
‘An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dr… [more below]- Author: Skuse, Alanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1836430779
- Language: English
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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial househo… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217061181
- Language: English
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Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age
$30.00 Add to cartOne of The Daily Telegraph‘s Greatest Books of 2025
A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history. Winter Dreams is an evocative hi- Author: Rosenwein, Barbara H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390912
- Language: English
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Those Who Are about to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
$35.00 Add to cartONE OF THE ECONOMIST‘S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 – See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator–from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after
“A grippingly original way of maki- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593801768
- Language: English
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
$31.99 Add to cartFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template o
- Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250381118
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true story yet.
It’s 1942, and New York City is at war. German U-boats are sinking ships just miles offshore
- Author: Harmon, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1400252989
- Language: English
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The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado’s Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
$35.00 Add to cartBy the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063383888
- Language: English
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The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
$30.00 Add to cartTwo lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and di… [more below]
- Author: Sarah, Aziz Abu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217086511
- Language: English
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Stellar: A World Beyond Limits and How To Get There
$23.20 Add to cartA bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair tha
- Author: Arbib, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1067046402
- Language: English
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A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
$20.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward‘s legendary advice column, “A Bintel Brief” (“a bundle of letters”) dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1… [more below]
- Author: Metzker, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209808
- Language: English
