History - General

Sidebar

Availability

Price

$
to
$

Product type

Format

Author

Show all
Filter
  • 10
  • 15
  • 20
  • 25
  • 30
  • 50
  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
Sort

Sort by:

  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Snyder, Timothy
    Timothy Snyder

    On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "bracing" (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from "a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" (The New York Times) "Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the...
    $12.00
    $12.00
    $12.00
  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Frank, Anne
    Anne Frank

    The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

    THE DEFINITIVE EDITION - Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.Updated for the...
    $14.00
    $14.00
    $14.00
  • Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--A Story for All Generations by Ebert, Lily
    Lily Ebert

    Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--A Story for All Generations

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this life-affirming intergenerational memoir, Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor, and her great-grandson, Dov Forman, come together to share her story--an unforgettable tale of resilience and resistance. On Yom Kippur, 1944, fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz,...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Fitzgerald, Frances
    Frances Fitzgerald

    Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and...
    $19.00
    $19.00
    $19.00
  • Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Harriot, Michael
    Michael Harriot

    Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator...
    $32.50
    $32.50
    $32.50
  • Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by Gordon, John Steele
    John Steele Gordon

    Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power

    Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • Night by Wiesel, Elie
    Elie Wiesel

    Night

    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents...
    $12.00
    $12.00
    $12.00
  • Gods of Olympus by Graziosi, Barbara
    Barbara Graziosi

    Gods of Olympus

    The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting their original...
    $20.00
    $20.00
    $20.00
  • A People's History of the United States by Zinn, Howard
    Howard Zinn

    A People's History of the United States

    THE 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 the future." -Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States...
    $22.99
    $22.99
    $22.99
  • The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It Failed by Meltzer, Brad
    Brad Meltzer

    The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It Failed

    From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked...
    $29.99
    $29.99
    $29.99
  • Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Massing, Michael
    Michael Massing

    Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

    A New York Times Notable Book A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history--Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther--whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and...
    $24.99
    $24.99
    $24.99
  • Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by Green, John
    John Green

    Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest disease. Signed edition Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as...
    $28.00
    $28.00
    $28.00
  • The Crusader States by Barber, Malcolm
    Malcolm Barber

    The Crusader States

    The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an...
    $25.00
    $25.00
    $25.00
  • Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by O'Reilly, Bill
    Bill O'Reilly

    Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

    Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Clinton, Catherine
    Catherine Clinton

    Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

    The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday).Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Elledge, Jonn
    Jonn Elledge

    A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

    People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a...
    $24.95
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties by O'Neill, Tom
    Tom O'Neill

    Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties

    A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers...
    $21.99
    $21.99
    $21.99
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Hurston, Zora Neale
    Zora Neale Hurston

    Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

    New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Stanley, Jason
    Jason Stanley

    Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality, and class. Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our...
    $28.99
    $28.99
    $28.99
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Shetterly, Margot Lee
    Margot Lee Shetterly

    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

    The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America. The...
    $18.99
    $18.99
    $18.99
  • Patriot
    Alexei Navalny

    Patriot

    The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Sides, Hampton
    Hampton Sides

    The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Harmon, Mark
    Mark Harmon

    Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." -- Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Jones, Dan
    Dan Jones

    Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

    The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king. In 1413, when Henry V ascended to the English throne, his kingdom was hopelessly torn apart by political faction and partisanship. Public...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by McMahon, Sharon
    Sharon McMahon

    The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

    From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into...
    $32.00
    $32.00
    $32.00
  • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Larson, Erik
    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...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Adlington, Lucy
    Lucy Adlington

    The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

    Author: Lucy AdlingtonISBN-10: 0063030934ISBN-13: 9780063030930Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2021Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.87h x 5.28w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2021Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 18Publishers Weekly 08/23/2021
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes (a Cookbook) by Miller, Max
    Max Miller

    Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes (a Cookbook)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the world with the first cookbook from the beloved YouTube channel Tasting History with Max Miller. What began as a passion project when Max Miller was furloughed during Covid-19...
    $30.00
    $30.00
    $30.00
  • Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Higginbotham, Adam
    Adam Higginbotham

    Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research--a riveting history that reads like a thriller. On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Keefe, Patrick Radden
    Patrick Radden Keefe

    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Soon to be an FX limited series streaming on HULU - From the author of Empire of Pain--a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old...
    $20.00
    $20.00
    $20.00
  • The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Thompson, Wright
    Wright Thompson

    The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

    "The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." --Kiese Laymon,...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Graff, Garrett M.
    Garrett M. Graff

    When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day--the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World...
    $32.50
    $32.50
    $32.50
  • Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Richardson, Heather Cox
    Heather Cox Richardson

    Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

    Author: Heather Cox RichardsonISBN-10: 0593652983ISBN-13: 9780593652985Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.63d
    $18.00
    $18.00
    $18.00
  • The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Hammer, Joshua
    Joshua Hammer

    The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

    **New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven in this "fast-paced narrative that is...part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The...
    $18.00
    $18.00
    $18.00
  • Countdown 1960: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 311 Days That Changed America's Politics Forever by Wallace, Chris
    Chris Wallace

    Countdown 1960: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 311 Days That Changed America's Politics Forever

    The new history by Chris Wallace, bestselling author of Countdown 1945 and Countdown bin Laden.Author: Chris WallaceISBN-10: 0593852192ISBN-13: 9780593852194Publisher: DuttonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 320Format: Hardcover
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
    Editors of Thunder Bay Press

    The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings

    "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . " -- The U.S Constitution The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is part of the Leather-bound Classics series and is a collection of the crucial documents,...
    $24.99
    $24.99
    $24.99
  • Medal of Honor: True Stories of America's Most Decorated Military Heroes by Patterson, James
    James Patterson

    Medal of Honor: True Stories of America's Most Decorated Military Heroes

    The authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling Walk in My Combat Boots salute America's most courageous military heroes. ​From the storied battlefields of American military action, here are vivid, authentic stories from the men and women who gave themselves--and even their lives--serving...
    $32.50
    $32.50
    $32.50
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Sagan, Carl
    Carl Sagan

    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

    A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last,...
    $18.99
    $18.99
    $18.99
  • Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by Carr, Jack
    Jack Carr

    Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

    The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut....
    $29.99
    $29.99
    $29.99
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by Loewen, James W.
    James W. Loewen

    Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."--Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by Grann, David
    David Grann

    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    A "TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION" (WSJ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking...
    $21.00
    $21.00
    $21.00
  • They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Mayer, Milton
    Milton Mayer

    They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

    "When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...
    $20.00
    $20.00
    $20.00
  • The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by O'Connor, John
    John O'Connor

    The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

    "A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to...
    $26.99
    $26.99
    $26.99
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Khalidi, Rashid
    Rashid Khalidi

    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create...
    $19.99
    $19.99
    $19.99
  • Maus I & II Paperback Box Set by Spiegelman, Art
    Art Spiegelman

    Maus I & II Paperback Box Set

    The bestselling graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and Challenged Books Everyone...
    $33.90
    $33.90
    $33.90
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Goodwin, Doris Kearns
    Doris Kearns Goodwin

    An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

    #1 New York Times Bestseller The perfect gift for Mother's Day and Father's Day! An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot, Rebecca
    Rebecca Skloot

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITHUB), AND...
    $18.99
    $18.99
    $18.99
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by X, Malcolm
    Malcolm X

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the...
    $19.00
    $19.00
    $19.00
  • By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Nagle, Rebecca
    Rebecca Nagle

    By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    Author: Rebecca NagleISBN-10: 0063112043ISBN-13: 9780063112049Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 352Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 14
    $32.00
    $32.00
    $32.00

Recently Viewed Products