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Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot
Martin W. Sandler · Sterling; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Stories that history forgot ... but readers will remember"The only thing new in the world," said Harry S. Truman, "is the history you don't know." In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic... |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition |
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From Barnes & NobleThe "yesterday" and "today" implicit in the title are the few hundred years since the Industrial Revolution. Most of us forget that for more than 100,000 years, humankind lived in resilient hunter-gatherer societies that we ignore or dismiss unthinkingly... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks. Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science,... |
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war
The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer... |
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American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
John Beckman · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America's unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth... |
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No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle For Bastogne
Leo Barron · NAL Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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On Christmas Eve, the holiest of nights for the many Christian peoples of Europe, Adolf Hitler was unleashing the full fury of his remaining Luftwaffe bomber force on Bastogne. For Bastogne was the holdout city, center of Allied resistance to his Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhein) offensive—the... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book |
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders,... |
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Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples
Roger L. Nichols · University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback |
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During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting... |
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Dlx Rep edition
Format: Paperback |
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Its 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 Fast, author of Spartacus and The ImmigrantsIt should be required reading. —Eric Foner, New York... |
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The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
Marcia Coyle · Simon & Schuster
Format: Book |
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The Roberts Court seven years old sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom Through four landmark decisions Marcia Coyle one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts JrSeven... |
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