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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting...

The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American ...

The Gifts Of The Jews Reveals The Critical Change That Made Western Civilization Possible. Within The Matrix Of Ancient Religions And Philosophies, Life Was...

Drawing on myriad sources―from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eveâ€...

Mccloskey’s Original Text Remains Unchanged. In His Historical Interpretation, He Argues That The Strength Of The Court Has Always Been Its Sensitivity To...

a Provocative New Perspective On Female History, The History Of American Medicine And Psychology, And The History Of Child-rearing Unlike Any Other. Categ...

America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author explores the fall of the American Dream and the steps we can take to b...

Traces the first eighty-six years of the twentieth century and describes important events in politics, industry, art, music, literature, religion, and sport...

This Constitution Was Proofed Word For Word Against The Original Constitution Housed In The Archives In Washington, D.c. It Is Identical In Spelling, Capita...

Annotation In This Provocative Book, An Eminent Political Scientist Poses The Question: Why Should We Uphold Our Constitution? Introduction: Fundamental Que...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpieceThe Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the perv...

Four rival anatomists and their race to answer the age-old question: Where does life come from? Generation is the story of the exciting, largely forgotten...

No Religion In The Modern World Is As Feared And Misunderstood As Islam. It Haunts The Popular Imagination As An Extreme Faith That Promotes Terrorism, Auth...

In This Timely New Study, One Of Our Major Political Analysts, Seymour Martin Lipset, Explores The Deeply Held But Often Inarticulated Beliefs That Shape Am...

A Best Book of the YearUSA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Min...

This text recounts the human story of western civilization. The second edition, it features greater thematic unity and a stronger chronological framework wh...

Pfaff Discusses Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries (including : T.e. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'annunzio -- Ernst Jünger --...

A History Of The Class System In America From The Colonial Era To The Present Illuminates The Crucial Legacy Of The Underprivileged White Demographic, Citin...

a People And A Nation Is A Best-selling Text Offering A Spirited Narrative That Tells The Stories Of All People In The United States. The Authors? Attenti...

A member of the 1980 Reagan-Bush election committee addresses questions concerning connections between the election of the two and the release of American h...

Examines the far-reaching social, economic, political, and legal changes inaugurated by the French RevolutionCategories: History United StatesGeneral

Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first explorers to the present day.Categories: HistoryWorld

An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by americans under the extreme and seemingly unending stress of three and a half years of cap...

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance is guide to a colorful and significant era in African-American history. The book includes an introduction; A-to-Z ent...

Chapter I The Scottish Rite's Prehistory / The Genesis And Genius Of Freemasonry 3 -- Chapter Ii First Light, 1801-1826 / Mitchell, Dalcho, Auld 25 -- Chapt...

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Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the...

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordi...

"If I could, I would put this book into the hands of every Christian in America." --Dr. David Jeremiah "Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, an...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

... Journey Into The Past And Present Of The Lands East Of Poland And West Of Russia. Germans -- Poles & Lithuanians -- Russians, Belarusians, & Ukr...

The defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has...

in Celebration Of The Bsa's 100th Anniversary, Boy Scouts Of America: A Centennial History Is The Official And Definitive History Of One Of Our Nation's M...

The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. R...

Synthesizing the best and most current scholarship, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents is a widely admired, ground-breaking text. Th...

Prologue: Our Title To India -- Empire At War -- Harvesting The Colonies -- Scorched -- At Any Price -- Death Of A Thousand Cuts -- An Occupied And Starving...

For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal contex...

Based on hundreds of interviews and years of research, an intimate and revealing portrait of the Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, reveals ...

Providing both a historical and contemporary perspective on presidential powers, The Powers of the Presidency guides readers through the presidency as a co...