General History
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
$24.95 Add to cart“This beautifully-illustrated letterpress hardcover weaves drawing, photographs, artifacts, and text to tell the story of 27 pioneers of the women’s movement from Sappho to Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirle… [more below]
- Author: O’Leary, Chandler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1632170574
- Language: English
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In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
$30.00 Read moreA writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River–exploring the long conflict over water supply
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has- Author: Fergusson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244150
- Language: English
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From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium
$24.95 Read moreThis illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre!
Based on Sayre’s five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is- Author: Sayre, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 145217802X
- Language: English
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$24.00 Add to cartFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$36.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
$20.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus–an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who bec… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #03
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0385483724
- Language: English
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Merits of the Plague
$18.00 Read moreThe preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time
A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and re- Author: Hajar Al-Asqalani, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136615
- Language: English
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In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa, 1795-1905
$38.95 Read moreWhen the cultural identity of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa was challenged by European Americans–who conceived of progress in terms of cultivated farmland–a tribal-federal conundrum o… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1946163562
- Language: English
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Cuba: An American History
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba an
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1501154559
- Language: English
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the popular “Letters from an American” newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0300136307
- Language: English
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
$23.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE – A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Div… [more below]
- Author: Kurson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0812973690
- Language: English
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Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International
$39.95 Read moreHope, Struggle and Defeat: The Communist International and the Global Fight for Freedom
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a last- Author: Studer, Brigitte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768010
- Language: English
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The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
$27.50 Read moreNow in paperback, from a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards.
The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecr- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146992
- Language: English
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
$19.00 Add to cartThis seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1962. Taking not only a psychologi… [more below]
- Author: Ellul, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12 1973
- ISBN10: 0394718747
- Language: English
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Jekyll Island: A State Park
$24.99 Add to cartSince the 1940s, Jekyll Island has gone through a transformation from an exclusive private club where America’s wealthiest families vacationed to a state-owned resort enjoyed by thousands of visitors … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bagwell, Tyler E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 25 2001
- ISBN10: 0738505722
- Language: English
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Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
$29.95 Add to cartAnyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute. Hardy brings together his expertise in forestry, horticulture, and environmental science to tell us about Ne… [more below]
- Author: Hardy, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0892727799
- Language: English
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Oak Island Odyssey: A Masonic Quest
$19.95 Read moreA compelling case for the connection between Freemasonry and the notorious Oak Island treasure, written by a historian and Curse of Oak Island guest expert.
If you think you know everything about the
- Author: Clarke, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1774711567
- Language: English
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The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
$26.95 Add to cartA new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy.
This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Euro- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: McCall, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 178914681X
- Language: English
