History
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Patton
$18.99 Add to cartThis magnificent biography by the world’s foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (a
- Author: Blumenson, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0688137954
- Language: English
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless a… [more below]
- Author: White, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973836
- Language: English
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
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Henry Sieben and the Montana Story
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Ryan, Ciara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1591523605
- Language: English
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Women Artists in Their Own Words
$34.95 Add to cartQuotations from leading women artists paired with iconic artworks, offering powerful insights into their creative journeys and the challenges they’ve faced over 150 years.
Art is a language beyond wor
- Author: Samet, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1858947235
- Language: English
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Steam and Steel: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1884
$25.00 Add to cartThe years following the Civil War were fraught with change for the people of the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. War had altered patterns of trade… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Brooks Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 162806451X
- Language: English
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Boston Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from Beantown
$29.95 Add to cartMore than 50 Recipes from the Longstanding Restaurants in Beantown
The Boston Chef’s Table brings recipes from the best chefs in the Boston area right to your kitchen. Included are favorites from Lydi- Author: Silverstein, Clara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087614
- Language: English
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The Art Isles: A 15,000-Year Story of Art in Britain and Ireland
$35.00 Add to cartThe British Isles hold a unique position in the history of art, a place where local traditions fuse with international ideas in extraordinary ways
At once isolated by coastal boundaries, yet also part- Author: Mullins, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272138
- Language: English
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River: A Hudson Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartLeslie Day’s life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin–a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In her hea
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783882
- Language: English
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Spokes of the Wheel: A Grandson’s Look at WWII, His Grandfather and His Hometown.
$25.00 Add to cartThomas Colclasure sat down with his grandfather, Henry Raymond “Ray” Colclasure in the summer of 1998 to begin chronicling his grandfather’s WWII experiences as a member of the elite 82nd Airborne Div
- Author: Colclasure, Thomas H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218460105
- Language: English
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Civil War Ghosts
$14.99 Add to cartWhile the War Between The States raged, the country’s spirits were restless… Civil War Ghosts takes a look inside real ghost stories reported at the time of the Civil War. Covering each year from 18
- Author: Hamilton, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 31 2019
- ISBN10: 0998164992
- Language: English
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The Princeton University Trivia Book
$22.95 Add to cartThe quintessential source of information about Princeton, one of the world’s most respected universities, with more than 650 questions (and answers!), perfect for current and prospective students, alu
- Series: College Trivia
- Author: Van Rossum, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 149307430X
- Language: English
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
$20.00 Read moreA compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire
The Ptolemaic era, Egypt’s last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age.- Author: De La Bedoyere, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284942
- Language: English
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Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be
$17.99 Add to cartMichelangelo saw something–someone–special in the stone.
No one wanted the “giant.” The hulking block of marble lay in the work yard, rained on, hacked at, and abandoned–until a young Michelangelo- Author: Sutcliffe, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1580892957
- Language: English
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
$17.99 Add to cartOnce Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial
- Author: Townsend, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 006199720X
- Language: English
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Maine Golf Tales: 18 Special Courses and the Stories Behind Them
$24.95 Add to cartMaine Golf Tales features 18 public Maine golf courses, geographically spread across the state. The deeply reported chapters are distinct to each course, uncovering the stories “behind” them, ranging
- Author: Conrad, Eric W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993326719
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History
$14.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller! A compendium about tiny ripples that created big waves in history. What was Hitler’s real name? Which famous artist was mistakenly thought to be stillborn, until his uncle r… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1510744401
- Language: English
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Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers
$55.00 Add to cartThe Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of
- Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0812239512
- Language: English
