History Books

The Black Box: Writing the Race By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593299784
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Published: Penguin Press - March 19th, 2024

“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.”
— Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste


The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook By Hampton Sides Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780385544764
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Published: Doubleday - April 9th, 2024

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic 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 this day.


Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic By Simon Winchester Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780063142893
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Published: Harper Perennial - April 23rd, 2024

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.


Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma By Claire Dederer Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525564188
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Published: Vintage - April 23rd, 2024

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?


Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians By Ralph White Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781982195182
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 9th, 2024

A “captivating” (The Washington Post) true story of “courage, resolve, and determination” (Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White’s successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.


1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History #4) By Eric H. Cline, Glynnis Fawkes (Illustrator), Glynnis Fawkes Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9780691213026
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Published: Princeton University Press - April 16th, 2024

A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis Fawkes


The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America By James L. Swanson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781501108167
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Published: Scribner - February 27th, 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded.

Once it was one of the most infamous ev


No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun By John Stansifer Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781335006066
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Published: Hanover Square Press - March 12th, 2024

The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.


Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World By Patrick Joyce Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668031087
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Published: Scribner - February 20th, 2024

A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.

“What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasi


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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction By Lynne Olson Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9780525509486
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 20th, 2024

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War


The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq By Steve Coll Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780525562269
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Published: Penguin Press - February 27th, 2024

“Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator’s thinking about world politics, local power and his relationship to the United States than has been seen before.” —The New York Times

“Another triumph from one of our best journalists.” The Washington Post


Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll By M.G. Lord Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781324095071
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Published: Liveright - March 5th, 2024

Barbie is a strong, independent doll. But is she a feminist icon? It’s complicated.