Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
$25.95 Add to cartA definitive history of the 20th century’s first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the- Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity #23
- Author: Suny, Ronald Grigor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175969
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
$25.00 Read moreA marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one t- Author: Howell, Georgina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531358
- Language: English
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Franklin and Eleanor
$25.99 Read moreA Los Angeles Times Bestseller
In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention—private and public- Author: Rowley, Hazel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610637
- Language: English
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in S… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #37
- Author: Parekh, Bhikhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854577
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and i… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743215362
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$24.99 Add to cartThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
$20.99 Add to cartSoon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C… [more below]
- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743431723
- Language: English
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
$17.95 Read moreFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 039335394X
- Language: English
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Texian Macabre
$26.95 Add to cartMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly–but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged “harsh epithets” with David James Jones, a … [more below]
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1933337567
- Language: English
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The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property
$19.95 Add to cartHow making treaties for land cessions with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the land and became a profitable family business.
- Author: Case, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681340909
- Language: English
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Message To The People
$15.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 163182726X
- Language: English
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
$28.99 Add to cart“… imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography.” –Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday Globe
Her rallying cry was famous: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” A c- Author: Gorn, Elliott J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0809070944
- Language: English
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The Story of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartDrawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.Here are… [more below]
- Author: Commager, Henry Steele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0743227182
- Language: English
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Wilson
$24.00 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “a brilliant biography”* of the 28th president of the United States.
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still
*Doris Kearns Goodwin- Author: Berg, A. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0425270068
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck
$9.99 Add to cartA stunning look at World War II from the other side…
From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel’s 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland,- Series: World War II Libary
- Author: Luck, Hans Von
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0440208025
- Language: English
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Edison
$39.00 Add to cartEin Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times – um nur einige zu nennen… [more below]
- Author: Israel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471362700
- Language: English
