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Vintage Views Along the West Pike:From Sand Trails to US-31 is a pictorial history of Michigan's most famous road. The historic West Michigan Pike, original...

LIFE 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time And the Stories Behind ThemCategories: HistoryUnited States

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

Although Most Of Us Think Of History--and Learn It--as A Conglomeration Of Facts, Dates, And Key Figures, For Professional Historians It Is A Way Of Knowing...

Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion: a roughhewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. But, thanks to th...

Hard Road to Freedom tells the story of African America from its African roots to the political and social upheavals at the end of the twentieth century. I...

San Antonio catering company Don Strange of Texas, known across the state as the king of caterers, has earned a reputation for serving delicious, freshly pr...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

Providence Canyon State Park, Also Known As Georgia's Little Grand Canyon, Preserves A Network Of Massive Erosion Gullies Allegedly Caused By Poor Farming P...

ONE BIBLE, MANY ANSWERS In God's Problem the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for ...

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich. The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his ...

Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjure...

A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with...

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "gold...

Joe Garner, a twenty-one-year member of the original Green Berets, recounts his top-secret missions with the U.S. Army Special Forces, involving the Cuba mi...

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 gr...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

Dust jacket notes: "Those of us who live beside the great lakes accept their magnitude with scarcely a passing thought," Pierre Berton writes. "We have long...

The experience of war has affected every generation in the 20th and 21st century. Every soldier has a story to tell, and since the year 2000 the Veteran's H...

"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...

On September 4, 1755, The Pennsylvania Gazette Printed A Dispatch From The Maritime Province Of Nova Scotia: We Are Now Upon A Great And Noble Scheme Of Sen...

In An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, Michael Burlingame has uncovered buried Lincoln treasure from the papers of one of Lincoln’s private secretaries, J...

The American Republic, written in 1865, is a part of the Conservative Leadership Series, and proves to remain a cornerstone of American thinking, a great in...

From Its Origins As A Dusty Mining Camp, Helena Quickly Grew Into A Bustling Cosmopolitan City, Eventually To Become The Capital Of Pioneer Montana. At Th...

To Hell in a Handbasket is a chilling account of how Jimmy Carter’s abandonment of a longtime U.S. ally in favor of a murderous mullah thirty years ago e...

Peterson The best-selling field guides of all time Medicinal plants are increasingly well regarded as supplements and sometimes as alternatives for prescr...

A Graphic Novel Adaptation Of Studs Terkel's Interviews And Accounts Of The Lives Of Ordinary Americans. Preface / Harvey Pekar -- Original Introduction To ...

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with ama...

William Baxter ; Introduction By William L. Shea. Originally Published: Cincinnati : Poe & Hitchcock, 1864.Categories: History United StatesState & ...

A Long Shadow is a fascinating narrative account of the fall of the Confederacy told from the perspective of Jefferson Davis, his official entourage, and h...

Culled From 7500 Columns And Spanning Four Decades, From His Early Days To His Last Dispatch, The Writings In This Collection Reflect A Radically Changing A...

From freighters in motion and intricate machinery in the engine room, to the men who operate and maintain the vessels, these photographs represent a testam...

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth preside...

Hillary Clinton's Candid Reflections About The Key Moments During Her Time As Secretary Of State, As Well As Her Thoughts About How To Navigate The Challeng...

In this book, historian Billy Yeargin takes readers back to the days when communities were founded and built upon tobacco culture and traditions developed a...

"More imaginatively than any other Stevens biographer, Fawn Brodie has speculated upon the emotional springs of the man's behavior. More resourcefully than...

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bus...

Hilton Head Island Travel Guide, South Carolina, USA. Gullah History and Tradition. Hilton Head Island is known far and wide as a vacation destination that ...

Describes political developments in Europe from the aftermath of World War II to the decline of the Soviet empire. Describes polit...

For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredi...

General George S. Patton, Jr. Died Under Mysterious Circumstances In The Months Following The End Of World War Ii. For Almost Seventy Years, There Has Been ...

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the cour...

A Collection Of 16 Documents Of Abraham Lincoln's Speeches, Proclamations, And Personal Correspondence. The Perpetuation Of Our Political Institutions: Addr...

This is the drinker's guide to every aspect of whisky, from Scotch to Japanese, rye to bourbon and beyond. With hundreds of entries covering everything fr...

Fought on almost every continent, the Second World War confronted American GIs with unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice f...

Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion: a roughhewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. But, thanks to th...

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...

"For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could h...