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Vendor: Carl Becker
Frederick Jackson Turner
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsFrederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This...- $21.95
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Vendor: Carl Becker
Frederick Jackson Turner
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsFrederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This...- $26.95
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Vendor: Richard J. Evans
The Coming of the Third Reich
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world's most distinguished historians, has written the definitive...- $57.99
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Vendor: Richard J. Evans
The Third Reich in Power
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of the Atlantic Monthly as the definitive English-language account......- $57.99
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Vendor: James R. Hansen
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....- $57.99
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Vendor: James R. Hansen
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....- $77.00
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Vendor: James M. McPherson
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Ada Calhoun
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
Author: Ada CalhounISBN-10: 1982667389ISBN-13: 9781982667382Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: David G. Dalin
Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Author: David G. Dalin, John F. RothmannISBN-10: 8200136493ISBN-13: 9798200136490Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2008Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: William F. Bynum
A Little History of Science
Author: William F. BynumISBN-10: 8200069087ISBN-13: 9798200069088Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: C. Raymond Calhoun
Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
Author: C. Raymond CalhounISBN-10: 1665231076ISBN-13: 9781665231077Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: James R. Hansen
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
The first-and only-definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose one small step changed historyWhen Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the...- $55.99
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Vendor: S. C. Gwynne
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War. The fourth...- $39.99
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Vendor: George E. Vaillant
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years and often...- $34.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. This vivid chronicle of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his...- $39.95
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Vendor: Stanley Karnow
Vietnam: A History
In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for...- $44.95
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Vendor: Adam Hochschild
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Charlotte Mullins
A Little History of Art
Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently...- $41.99
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Vendor: Robert Cwiklik
Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent...- $36.99
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Vendor: Thomas Heatherwick
Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
From one of the world's most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyone--featuring hundreds of photographs and illustrations that will change how you see the...- $29.99
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Vendor: E. H. Gombrich
A Little History of the World
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur...- $19.95
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Vendor: Emma Southon
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of twenty-one extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient worldThe history of Rome has long been...- $31.95
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Vendor: Bill James
Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
From the one-of-a-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes an epic tour through American crime, delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime...- $75.00
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Vendor: Natalie Haynes
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...- $41.99
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Vendor: John F. Kennedy
A Nation of Immigrants
"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 leaders have embraced, not feared, the diversity which makes America...- $27.99
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Vendor: Joy-Ann Reid
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
The host of MSNBC's The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history.Myrlie Louise...- $41.99
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Vendor: Martin Luther King
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition: 60th Anniversary Edition
With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingCelebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollinsOn...- $36.99
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Vendor: J. Franklin Jameson
The History of Historical Writing in America
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsTHE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN AMERICA by J. Franklin Jameson, PhD, Professor of History at Brown University. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.Note: This book is "read as written." It was published in 1891. It is...- $26.95
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walking, Autumnal Tints & Wild Apples
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."Here are three of Thoreau's most famous talks brought together in one volume. "Walking," "Autumnal Tints," and "Wild Apples" are all autumn essays--contemplative, deliberate, and insightful. They are profound reflections on nature, beauty, and our place in...- $26.95
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Vendor: William a. Dunning
A Generation of American Historiography
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA GENERATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY by William A. Dunning. Professor of History at Columbia University. Published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association THE YEAR 1917.A nice overview of book trends and the histories/historians...- $26.95
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Vendor: Samuel W. Mitcham
Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South
Hear about the Civil War from those who were there. They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Joseph M. Marshall
The Journey of Crazy Horse Lib/E: A Lakota History
Author: Joseph M. MarshallISBN-10: 1665114320ISBN-13: 9781665114325Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2004Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbs- $71.99
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Vendor: Roger Clark
Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Author: Roger Clark, Anders AslundISBN-10: 1665208538ISBN-13: 9781665208536Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Jason Goodwin
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates...- $14.99
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Vendor: Heather Cox Richardson
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew...- $9.99
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Vendor: Erik Larson
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War--a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. A MOST...- $45.00
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Vendor: Jack L. Talley
Never Give Up the Jump: Combat, Resilience, and the Legacy of World War II Through the Eyes and Voices of the Paratroopers, Wives, and Familie
Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper. And then there was the special poem in his roll-top desk she sometimes snuck a peek at, written by a member of Dad's regiment. This poem was a premonition of the...- $46.99
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Vendor: Peter H. Wilson
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking...- $82.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885.Note: This book is 'read as written'. It was published...- $36.95
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Vendor: Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors--the last...- $46.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885.Note: This book is 'read as written'. It was published...- $31.95
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Vendor: Andrew Biggio
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is the inspirational story of a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived...- $41.99
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Vendor: Tom Segev
1967 Lib/E: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
Author: Tom SegevISBN-10: 8200141276ISBN-13: 9798200141272Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2007Format: CDWeight: 0.75lbs- $121.99
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Vendor: Ian Black
Enemies and Neighbors Lib/E: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Author: Ian BlackISBN-10: 1665229616ISBN-13: 9781665229616Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2018Format: CDWeight: 1.05lbs- $101.99
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Vendor: Tom Segev
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Author: Tom SegevISBN-10: 1665205776ISBN-13: 9781665205771Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2019Format: CDWeight: 1.05lbs- $77.00
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Vendor: Christa Lewis
A Pocket History of Human Evolution Lib/E: How We Became Sapiens
Author: Christa Lewis, Silvana Condemi, Francois SavatierISBN-10: 1665205288ISBN-13: 9781665205283Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Amanda M. Fairbanks
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as "an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story."In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat...- $39.99
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Vendor: Clint Hill
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the...- $49.99
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Vendor: John Kerr
A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional...- $29.95
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Vendor: Rupaul
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
Read by Ru PaulFrom international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power...- $41.99
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