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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
A Short History of Canada: Seventh Edition
The Greeks: A Global History
The Travels
The Travels Marco Polo Paperback Sale price$18.00
A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
Penguin History of Canada
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary
The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order
Seven Things You Can't Say About China
Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays Eric Foner Hardcover Sale price$35.00
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski Paperback Sale price$19.00
Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
On Impeachment: The Presidency on Trial
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland
Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War
The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
Precolonial Black Africa
The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Crazy Horse: A Life
Crazy Horse: A Life Larry McMurtry Paperback Sale price$17.00
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
The January 6th Report
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Introduction To African Civilizations
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
Romney: A Reckoning
Romney: A Reckoning McKay Coppins Paperback Sale price$20.99
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals
The Radical King
The Radical King Martin Luther King Jr. Paperback Sale price$19.00
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Fear: Trump in the White House
My Bondage and My Freedom
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
The Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670-1840
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World
The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
Pelosi
Pelosi Molly Ball Paperback Sale price$18.00
National Geographic The Old West
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
634 Ways to Kill Fidel
634 Ways to Kill Fidel Fabian Escalante Paperback Sale price$18.95
Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Buried New Hampshire: Graveyards Have Stories to Tell, Volume I
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (LOA #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
The World Encyclopedia of Flags: An Illustrated Guide to International Flags, Banners, Standards and Ensigns
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West: From True West Magazine
Making Revolution: My Life in the Black Panther Party
On a Move: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
Cleopatra: A Biography
Cleopatra: A Biography Duane W. Roller Paperback Sale price$20.99
To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment: Free Men Who Fought Slavery
A Concise History of Modern India
The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
Here, Right Matters: An American Story
Lincoln's Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang that Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Nathan Irvin Huggins Paperback Sale price$23.99
US History in 15 Foods
US History in 15 Foods Anna Zeide Paperback Sale price$34.50
Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
House Of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2
The Battle of Stalingrad: Then and Now
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Long Island City
Long Island City Arcadia Publishing Paperback Sale price$24.99
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition
Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle 1876-1976
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy
The Mueller Report
The Mueller Report The Washington Post Paperback Sale price$15.00
German Tanks in Barbarossa 1941
George Washington: The Wonder of the Age
Pearl Harbor Ghosts: The Legacy of December 7, 1941
Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
Hamas: A Beginner's Guide Khaled Hroub Paperback Sale price$19.95
Historic Photos of Fort Worth
Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal
The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Rorke's Drift Revisited: A New Account of the Most Famous Battle of the Anglo-Zulu War
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust
The Boeing B-17
The Boeing B-17 Ben Skipper Paperback Sale price$28.95
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior: 1st Century AD
The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign
The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia
Dark Tales of Old Town Albuquerque
The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman Paperback Sale price$20.00
Fighting with the Screaming Eagles: With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne
Abandoned Southern Colorado and the San Luis Valley
Zapata
Zapata John Steinbeck Paperback Sale price$32.00
Plutarch's Lives, The Complete 48 Biographies (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Abandoned Northern Colorado: Ghosts of the Great High Plains
Historic Photos of Baton Rouge
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber
The 50s: The Story of a Decade
Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus
The Battle of Saint-Vith and the Potteau Ambush, December 1944
Central and Southern California Lima Beans
The Capture of U-505: The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944
The Romans For Dummies
Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting
Sturmgeschütz: Germany's WWII Assault Gun (StuG), Vol.1: The Early War Versions
Here to Stay: Uncovering South Asian American History
History of the Mafia
History of the Mafia Salvatore Lupo Paperback Sale price$29.95
Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
Sturmgeschütz: Germany's WWII Assault Gun (StuG), Vol.2: The Late War Versions
Tank Craft 44 Stug III Assault Gun: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units Eastern Front, 1944
Opium: A History
Opium: A History Martin Booth Paperback Sale price$27.99
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
The Great Cities in History
Berlin: A Spy's Guide to its Cold War History in Story and Image
The Law
The Law Frederic Bastiat Hardcover Sale price$15.99
Horn: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Prospector
Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
In The Michigan Lumber Camps
The Secret War: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition (1914-1917)
Lee's Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
State and Revolution
United States Navy Patches Series: Volume II: Aircraft, Attack Squadrons, Heli Squadrons
Venice: History of the Floating City
Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975-2001
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War (Signed Book)
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
The Ways of Love: Eleven Romances of Medieval France
Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory
The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture
Infinite West: Travels in South Dakota