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North American history: Native American

You can find Native American history in a new section
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and music of the First Nations of North and South America.


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North American history: U.S. 1492-1800
Colonial, Revolutionary & the Birth of a Nation

T.H. Breen
Puritans & Adventurers

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

George Franklin Feldman
Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Carl Japikse, editor
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Clay S. Jenkinson
Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century

Frank Joseph
The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

Douglas Edward Leach
Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces & Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

Toby Mac & Michael Tait
Under God

Bill Mauldin
Mud & Guts

Alice McGill
Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet

Donna Merwick
Death of a Notary

Edmund S. Morgan
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

James L. Nelson
Benedict Arnold's Navy

Kent Thompson
The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist

Cathy Travis
Constitution Translated for Kids

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Good Wives: Image & Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Barry Vann
Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage

Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

John Hardy Wright
Sorcery in Salem

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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North American history: U.S. 1801-1900
19th Century, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction & the West

Frederick Allen
A Decent Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes

Deanne Blanton & Lauren M. Cook
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

Walter R. Borneman
1812: The War that Forged a Nation

William Riley Brooksher
Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek

Arnold R. Brown
Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Karen Elizabeth Chaney
New England Remembers: Lizzie Borden

Stephen A. Channing
Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina

Owen Chase
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Larry S. Chowning
Soldiers at the Doorstep

William J. Cooper
The South & the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856

Stephen Fox
Wolf of the Deep

Rick Geary
The Borden Tragedy

Jerome A. Greene
Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Mark Grimsley
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864

Aubrey L. Haines
An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

Samuel W. Hankins
Simple Story of a Soldier: Life & Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry

William C. Harris
North Carolina & the Coming of the Civil War

Brian Hicks
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew

Paul Andrew Hutton, editor
The Custer Reader

Michael P. Johnson
Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia

Marc W. Kruman
Parties & Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865

Walter LaFeber
The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898

Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, & the Deadliest Hurricane in History

William McCarter
My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien

James L. Nelson
Reign of Iron

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Geoffrey Perret
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

David Rehak
Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?

Shekhar Shimpi
Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story

Hampton Sides
Blood & Thunder

Daniel Stashower
The Beautiful Cigar Girl

David Stinebeck & Scannell Gill
A Civil General

Roy Edwin Thomas
Come Go With Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains

Saral Tiwari
Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War President

Allen W. Trelease
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy & Southern Reconstruction

Steven E. Woodworth & Kenneth J. Winkle
Atlas of the Civil War

Scott Zesch
The Captured


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North American history: U.S. 1901-1945
Early 20th Century, World War I, Roaring '20s, Great Depression & World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Blanche Caldwell Barrow
My Life with Bonnie & Clyde

Jerome Charyn
Gangsters & Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age & the Birth of Broadway

Greg Dawson
 Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit

Dan Kurzman
No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

Laurel Leff
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper

Walter Lord
The Night Lives On

Candice Millard
The River of Doubt

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Richard J. Perry
United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism

Bill Sloan
Given Up for Dead

Donovan Webster
The Burma Road


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North American history: U.S. 1946-2008
Late 20th Century, the Cold War Era to present

Brian David Andersen
"My God, I'm Hit!"

Diana Anhalt
A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1948-1965

Kristen Breitweiser
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow

Marilyn Church
The Art of Justice: An Eyewitness View of Thirty Infamous Trials

John Crawford
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

Robert A. Divine
Eisenhower & the Cold War

Mitchell Fink
Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

Clay S. Jenkinson
Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century

Gary Valentine Lachman
Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Toby Mac & Michael Tait
Under God

Robert W. Norris
Looking for the Summer

Alan Rogers
New England Remembers: The Boston Strangler

Charles E. Skoller
Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese & Barbara Kralik Murder Trials

Paul Slansky
The George W. Bush Quiz Book

William L. Smith
Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture

Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Howard Zinn
Terrorism & War


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North American history: Canada

Ted Barris
Juno: Canadians at D-Day

Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road

Peter Edwards
One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis

Melissa Fay Greene
Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

Jacqueline Langille
Giants Angus McAskill & Anna Swan

Jennifer Niven
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Bruce Nunn
History with a Twist: Unusual Stories from Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

John Ralston Saul
Joseph Howe & the Battle for Freedom of Speech

Richard Thomas Wright & Cathryn Wellner
Castles in the Air


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European history: England

Billy Bragg
The Progressive Patriot

William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas

Thomas E. Hachey
Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State

Victor Head
Hereward

Harold F. Hutchison
Edward II

Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund, editors
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
The Year 1000

Walter Lord
The Night Lives On

John E. Morris
The Welsh Wars of Edward I

J.E. Neale
Queen Elizabeth I

Mike Parker
Neighbours from Hell?

Tony Robinson
The Worst Jobs in History

A.L. Rowse
Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses

James Ruddick
Death at the Priory: Sex, Love & Murder in Victorian England

Christopher Snyder
The World of King Arthur

Philip Sugden
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Matthew Sweet
Inventing the Victorians

Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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European history: Ireland

Robert Baird
Diverse Druids

Brendan Behan
Borstal Boy

James Bonwick
Irish Druids & Old Irish Religions

Angela Bourke
The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Ciaran Brady, editor
The Encyclopedia of Ireland

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Matthew J. Culligan & Peter Cherici
The Wandering Irish in Europe: Their Influence from the Dark Ages to Modern Times

Terry Deary
Horrible Histories: Ireland

Stephen Dunford
In Humbert's Footsteps: Mayo 1798

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

Peter Gray
The Irish Famine

Thomas E. Hachey
Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State

Margaret Hawkins
Restless Spirit

Martin McGartland
Fifty Dead Men Walking

David McWilliams
The Pope's Children

Don Mullan
Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth

Ulick O'Connor
Michael Collins & the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922

Trina Robbins
Wild Irish Roses

Eric Roth, with Eileen McNamara
The Parting Glass: A Toast to the Traditional Pubs of Ireland

Sacred Symbols: The Celts

Olive Sharkey
Ways of Old: Traditional Life in Ireland

George Otto Simms
Brendan the Navigator

William L. Smith
Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture

Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham-Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith & Charles Woodham
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849


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European history: Germany

Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

Victor Klemperer
I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years

Gerhard Ritter
Frederick the Great: A Historical Profile

Anna Marie Sigmund
Women of the Third Reich


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European history: France

Susan Nagel
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter


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European history: Mediterranean

Robert E. Bell
Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary

Robert E. Gaebel
Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World


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European history: Scotland

Ben Buxton
Mingulay: An Island & its People

Ron Chepesiuk
The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

William Hamilton, et al
Blind Harry's Wallace

Mairi Hedderwick
An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey

Lloyd & Jenny Laing
The Picts & the Scots

James MacKay
William Wallace: Brave Heart

R. Andrew McDonald
The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard in the Central Middle Ages


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European history: Spain

Rosa Maria Artal
11M-14M Onda Expansiva

Jose Luis Alvarez Emparantza (a.k.a., Txillardegi)
Euskal Herria en el Horizonte (Basque Homeland on the Horizon)

Mark Kurlansky
The Basque History of the World

Nicholas Rankin
Telegram from Guernica

Giles Tremlett
Ghosts of Spain


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European history: Wales

Peter Berresford Ellis
The Celtic Revolution

Gwynfor Evans
The Fight for Welsh Freedom

John E. Morris
The Welsh Wars of Edward I

Mike Parker
Neighbours from Hell?


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World history: Africa

Jean Davison
The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya

Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Frank Joseph
The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

Michela Wrong
I Didn't Do It for You


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World history: India

Alain Danielou
A Brief History of India (L'Histoire de l'Inde)


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World history: Middle East

Thura Al-Windawi
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq

Leith Anderson
Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land & His People

Karen Armstrong
Islam: A Short History

Carmen Bin Ladin
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia

John Crawford
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

Gawdat Gabra
Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art & Architecture

T.C.F. Hopkins
Empires, Wars, & Battles

Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea

Jesus Muhammad-Ali
The Evolution of the Nation of Islam

Tudor Parfitt
The Thirteenth Gate: Travels Among the Lost Tribes of Israel

Heather Pringle
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, & the Everlasting Dead

Sacred Symbols: Ancient Egypt


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Periods in history: The Middle Ages

Bettina Bildhauer & Robert Mills, editors
The Monstrous Middle Ages

Phyllis Pray Bober
Art, Culture & Cuisine: Ancient & Medieval Gastronomy

Salvatore T. Bruno
Templar Organization: The Management of Warrior Monasticism

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
The Year 1000

A.L. Rowse
Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses


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Periods in history: The Renaissance

Ann Depas-Orange & Robert C. Evans, editors
The Birthday of Myself: Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet


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Periods in history: The Age of Sail

Nigel Cawthorne
A History of Pirates: Blood & Thunder on the High Seas

Owen Chase
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

David Cordingly
Under the Black Flag

William S. Crooker
Pirates of the North Atlantic

William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas

Mike Dash
Batavia's Graveyard

Joan Druett
In the Wake of Madness
She Captains: Heroines & Hellions of the Sea

Joyce Glasner
Pirates & Privateers

Neil Hanson
The Custom of the Sea

Brian Hicks
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew

Edward Lodi
Nantucket Sleigh-Ride

Sara Lorimer
Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas

Dallas Murphy
Rounding the Horn

James L. Nelson
Benedict Arnold's Navy
Reign of Iron

Wes Oleszewski
Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Diana & Michael Preston
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

Howard Pyle
The Book of Pirates

David J. Seibold & Charles J. Adams III
Shipwrecks & Legends 'Round Cape May

Rayner Thrower
The Pirate Picture

Jane Yolen
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens

Richard Zacks
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd


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Periods in history: World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Ted Barris
Juno: Canadians at D-Day

James Bradley
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945

Greg Dawson
 Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

C.S. Forester
Hunting the Bismarck

Pauline Hayton
A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer

Victor Klemperer
I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years

Dan Kurzman
No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

Laurel Leff
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper

Richard J. Perry
United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism

Anna Marie Sigmund
Women of the Third Reich

Bill Sloan
Given Up for Dead

Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Pianist

Donovan Webster
The Burma Road


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General World History

Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Michael D. Coe, editor
Swords & Hilt Weapons

Richard Davenport-Hines
Gothic

Victor Davis Hanson
Ripples of Battle

Mike Flanagan
It's About Time: How Long History Took

Larry Gonick
The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 1

Louis Haber
Black Pioneers of Science & Invention

Tony Judt
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Cecil Kuhne, editor
Near Death in the Arctic: True Stories of Disaster & Survival

Vicki Leon
Uppity Women of Ancient Times

Ralph Lewin
Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural & Socio-Historical Coprology

Sara Lorimer
Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas

Roger Osborne
Civilisation

John Pilger, editor
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism & Its Triumphs

Michael Powell
Back in the Day

Tony Robinson
The Worst Jobs in History

Andreas Schroeder
Cheats, Charlatans, & Chicanery

Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin & Scott Rubin
In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People


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Discovering & Re-enacting History

Richard Barber
The Holy Grail: Imagination & Belief

Mark C. Carnes, editor
Novel History: Historians & Novelists Confront America's Past

W. Hodding Carter
A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World

Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic

Michael Powell
Back in the Day

Roland Wells Robbins
Discovery at Walden

Barry Vann
Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage


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Biography & Autobiography

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