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In Our Own Words - Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

"Settle down to ten decades of American history", writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her rousing Foreword to...

Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service

The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key citie...

American Evangelicalism - George Marsden and the State of American Religious History

No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellec...

Touching History - The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front l...

Lincoln at Home - Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life

By the acclaimed two-time Pulitzer prize winner, author of the definitive "Lincoln," a beautifully packaged and affordable portrait of th...

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens - Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work ...

Twelve Years a Slave - The Black History Classic

DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidn...

The French Way - How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power

How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney t...

Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to the Holodomor

Gareth Jones (1905-1934), the young Welsh investigative journalist, is revered in Ukraine as a national hero and is now rightly recognise...

Prizefighting and Civilization - A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940

In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. ...

France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500

This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first...

Harding Affair - Love and Espionage During the Great War

< Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected ...

Berlin Now - The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the las...

The African Origin of Civilization - Myth or Reality A Deep Dive

This chapter by chapter review of Cheikh Anta Diop's foundational work, The African Origin of Civilization, offers some perspective here ...

Frontier Fictions - Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth a...

Potsdam

Red sandstone, lumber, paper, cows, and college students feature prominently in Potsdam. With its selection of two hundred stunning photo...

Vikings - An Encyclopedia of Conflict, Invasions, and Raids

For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they ...

A Short Environmental History of Italy - Variety and Vulnerability

The Richness and the Fragility of Italy's Humanised Environment This book, a translation of the author's original Italian Breve Storia de...

"Mein Stendal" - Ein Stadtporträt in Fotos und Gedanken

Stendal ist ... ja, was eigentlich? Eine Stadt mit Geschichte und Gegenwart, das kann man sagen. Eine Rolandstadt und auch eine der Backs...

Black American History For Dummies

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebra...

Hungarian Liberals

A concise history of Hungary - Millenniumi magyar történet

The Britannias - An Island Quest

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson 'Fascinating, often exhilarating ...

Du Bois on Religion

Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois's writings on religion, and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the l...

The rise and fall of the great powers

Alpine Passes of Switzerland - Journey to Modernity

For centuries, the Alps were an almost insurmountable barrier on the way from Europe's north to the south, and vice versa. The Romans rep...

Ancient Advanced Technology in South America

There are a host of ancient ruins in South America, claimed by the Inca, inherited by the Inca, conquered by the Inca and built by the In...

ISRAEL - CENTER OF HISTORY and CENTER OF THE WORLD

The Bible shows at great length and depth that Israel is God's special, chosen Covenant nation and people. That Divine Choice and Covenan...

The Last Days of Pompeii - 1887

Fa'a Siamani - Germany in Micronesia, New Guinea and Samoa 1884-1914

The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and...

Boon Island - A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism

A harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.

Report Made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies

This scarce antiquarian book contains a report made to the Chamber of Deputies concerning the abolition of slavery in the French colonies...

Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond

Edgar Allan Poe, the renowned author of tales of mystery and madness, arrived in Richmond in 1810 at the age of one and left the city for...

A History of East Asia - From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

The second edition of Charles Holcombe's acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.

Maulbronn

Bildband mit ausführlicher historischer, theologischer und kunstgeschichtlicher Beschreibung des Klosters Maulbronn. Die Fotografien stam...

Venice - City of Pictures

A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, "La Serenissima"--a unique and compelling story for both love...

Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

A History of Britain in Just a Minute

The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hila...

A Wall in Palestine

The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this ne...

The magyars the birth of a european nation

Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer - A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa

The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and ...

Discovering Texas History

"Broad in scope, yet succinct, Discovering Texas History is a thorough, informative, and readable guide to modern Texas history from seve...

Native Peoples A to Z (Volume One) - A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

The Native Peoples of the Americas flourished in the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years prior to contact with Europeans. These Nat...

Early New England People - Some Account Of The Ellis, Pemberton, Willard, Prescott, Titcomb, Sewall, And Longfellow, And Allied Families

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

A short history of Africa

1939-1940 New York World's Fair

After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair found welcome relief in the fa...

White Shell Water Place (Softcover)

This anthology, a companion to the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemoration publication, "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe," affords Native Am...

A history of the United States

The Árpád-line

The Defence system of the Hungarian royal Army in the Eastern Carpathians 1940-1944

Japan: Profile of a nation

The History of Saudi Arabia

The revised edition of this comprehensive survey follows the political, military, religious, economic, and diplomatic history of the King...

The Habsburg monarchy 1809-1918

'Tell it All' - the Ordeals of a Woman Against Polygamy Within the Mormon Church During the 19th Century

A 'first wife' tells the story of her life The author of 'Wife No. 19,' Ann Young was in measure inspired in her own literary efforts and...

SHORT HIST AMERN REVOLUTION PB

The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history trace...

A Pocket History of the United States

Gotha, World*Heritage*Town - A Walk

"Es gibt wenige Städte in Deutschland, welche gleich bei dem ersten Anblick das Auge des Fremden so zu fesseln vermögen, wie die Haupt- u...

The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization

This book presents a collection of archaeological and anthropological writings by Li Chi, the founding father of modern archaeology in Ch...

Discovering Lot West Ackley and Descendants in Oswego County, NY, 1813-1984 - null

This book traces the descendants of Nicholas Ackley in the fifth through the eighth generations in Oswego County, NY: Lot West Ackley, Ar...

The Key to My Neighbor's House - Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers...

Danville

Danville, known as the City of Firsts and Birthplace of the Bluegrass, is nestled in the heart of Kentucky. Its location on a branch of t...