Chronological Period/20th Century
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Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
$23.95 Read moreWhat did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe’s Jews?
Ameri- Author: Greene, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1978821689
- Language: English
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Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil
$19.99 Read moreThe story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.
Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history–the beginnings of- Author: Falgoux, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1510769900
- Language: English
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When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel
$17.99 Read more“Pitch-perfect research and incomparable heart paint every corner of the brilliantly colored canvas of When Stone Wings Fly.Readers, get ready: your newet split-time fiction experience rests in the ha… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0825447178
- Language: English
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Shoeless Joe & Me
$9.99 Read moreWhen Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson — and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player’s career — he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball ca
- Series: Baseball Card Adventures
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0064472590
- Language: English
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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
$21.95 Read moreWinner of the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award
“Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293886
- Language: English
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Campus to Counter
$30.00 Read moreCAMPUS TO COUNTER analyzes civil rights activism in North Carolina in the early 1960s, especially among students at Shaw University, Saint Augustine’s College, and North Carolina College at Durham. Th… [more below]
- Series: America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Author: Suttell, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468770
- Language: English
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Surviving as a Migrant Worker in the Great Depression: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yoursel… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669058107
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
$23.99 Read moreAN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Fig- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062624
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Roan Stallion
$9.95 Read moreThe exciting Big Heart Series continues when Alfred Swallow meets a wild roan stallion. Not just any stallion, but a medicine hat roan stallion that is believed to have special powers.
The bond betwee
- Series: Legend of Big Heart
- Author: Beartrack-Algeo, Alfreda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 193905348X
- Language: English
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History and Utopia
$17.99 Read more“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.
In History and Utopia, C- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724250
- Language: English
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The Coal Thief
$15.00 Add to cartBrrr! Georgie wakes up to a freezing morning in 1920s Pennsylvania and gets the bad news that there is no coal to heat the farmhouse–and he knows there is no money to buy more, either. Just after he … [more below]
- Author: Adams, Alane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1940716276
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War
$18.99 Add to cartTo survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson–a story of terror, hope, love, and
- Author: Robson, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062674978
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$16.95 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496749928
- Language: English
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The Stolen Hours: An Epic Romantic Tale of Forbidden Love, Book Two of the Wild Isle Series
$27.99 Read more‘A dramatic start to a gripping new series . . . meticulously researched and beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers’ – Santa Montefiore, author of Flappy Investigates on The
- Series: Wild Isles #2
- Author: Swan, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1529084415
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
