Social History
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A People’s History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062397346
- Language: English
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Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – The Aor Glory Years 1976-1986
$30.00 Add to cartA massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves
Paul Rees’
- Author: Rees, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836041
- Language: English
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The Fatal Shore
$24.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today.
“One of the greatest non-fiction b- Author: Hughes, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394753666
- Language: English
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All Roads Lead to Hastings-on-Hudson: A History of the Lower Hudson River Valley and New York City
$32.99 Add to cartA definitive history of Hastings-on-Hudson, reflecting the triumphs and challenges of progress within America for over 400 years.
Despite its modest footprint, Hastings-on-Hudson mirrors the growth of
- Author: Lillard, Jonathan Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822977921
- Language: English
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Beard and Moustache Management
$15.95 Read moreDo you know how to trim your whiskers properly?
With beards and moustaches more popular than ever, this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question. And if a trim is not require- Author: Martin, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803990252
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
$24.99 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the “Greenwood District”- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as “The Black Wall Street of America
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1934645389
- Language: English
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
$15.99 Add to cartDick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelon
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0062448714
- Language: English
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
$17.99 Add to cartThis is not a comforting book — it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both “merit” and historical redress as princi… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 5, 2002
- ISBN10: 0684864630
- Language: English
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
$17.99 Add to cart“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricit
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0380715430
- Language: English
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One Summer: America, 1927
$22.00 Add to cartA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newa
A GoodReads Reader’s Choice- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0767919416
- Language: English
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The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Marche, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123222
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$24.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States
$30.99 Add to cartSimon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates th
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062278517
- Language: English
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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
$27.00 Add to cart“Fascinating . . . What is remarkable about this book is that a history of knitting can function so well as a survey of the changes in women’s rolse over time.”–The New York Times Book Review
An his- Author: MacDonald, Anne L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 07 1990
- ISBN10: 0345362535
- Language: English
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The Face: A Cultural History
$32.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a sweeping cultural history of our most decisive–and sometimes divisive–body part.
What’s in a face? An- Author: Bound-Alberti, Fay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783118
- Language: English
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
$21.99 Add to cartA definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.
Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transf
- Author: Porter, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 866
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0006374549
- Language: English
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The World of Odysseus
$17.95 Add to cartThe World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey–a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Finley, M. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1590170172
- Language: English
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Civilizaci?3n O Barbarie: La Batalla Por El Futuro de la Humanidad / Civilization or Barbarism
$21.95 Read moreUN ENSAYO PARA RECUPERAR LA IMAGINACI?N POL?TICA Y DEFENDER LA CIVILIZACI?N EN TIEMPOS DE COLAPSO.
“Este libro no es un manual de supervivencia individual. Para eso ya existen miles de gur?s vendi?ndo… [more below]- Author: Barroso, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 8466678646
- Language: Spanish
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Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain
$30.00 Read moreThe captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain in the decades before the Salem Witch Trials, leaving hundreds of so-called witches dead in its wake, by acclaimed his… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 22 2026
- ISBN10: 1668206536
- Language: English
