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T.H. Breen
• Puritans & Adventurers

Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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

Frances Hill
• A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

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

Kenneth Roberts
• The Battle of Cowpens

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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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

John Boessenecker
• When Law was in the Holster

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

Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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

Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
• Pirates of New Jersey

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

Mitch Horowitz
• Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

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

Steven E. Maffeo
•  The Perfect Wreck

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

David Nevin
• 1812

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?

Lee Sandlin
• Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

Shekhar Shimpi
• Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story

Donald G. Shomette
• The Othello Affair

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

Mark Van De Logt
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

Mark Warner
• The Tragedy of the Royal Tar

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

Scott Zesch
• The Captured

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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

Kevin Begos, Daniel Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
• Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program & the Campaign for Reparations

Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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

Mark Kurlansky
• The Food of a Younger Land

Robert Kurson
• Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

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

Allison Lawlor
• Rum-Running

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

Walter Lord
• A Night to Remember
• The Night Lives On

Candice Millard
• The River of Doubt

Wes Oleszewski
• Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts
• Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

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

Bill Sloan
• Given Up for Dead

Steve Turner
• The Band That Played On

Donovan Webster
• The Burma Road

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

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

Kevin Begos, Daniel Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
• Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program & the Campaign for Reparations

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

Antonino D'Ambrosio
• A Heartbeat & a Guitar: Johnny Cash & the Making of "Bitter Tears"

Robert A. Divine
• Eisenhower & the Cold War

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

David Hadju
• The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare & How It Changed America

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

Benjamin J. Luft
• We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice & Renewal

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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Ted Barris
• Juno: Canadians at D-Day

Joseph Boyden
• Three Day Road

Chester Brown
• Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

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

Mark Warner
• The Tragedy of the Royal Tar

Richard Thomas Wright & Cathryn Wellner
• Castles in the Air

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Michael Thomas Barry
•  Great Britain's Royal Tombs: A Guide to the Lives & Burial Places of British Monarchs

Billy Bragg
• The Progressive Patriot

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

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
•  Nelson's Officers & Midshipmen

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

Victor Head
• Hereward

Paul Hill
• The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066

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
• A Night to Remember
• The Night Lives On

Steven E. Maffeo
•  The Perfect Wreck

John E. Morris
• The Welsh Wars of Edward I

J.E. Neale
• Queen Elizabeth I

Roger Paine
• Clear Lower Deck: A Collection of My Naval Yarns

Mike Parker
• Neighbours from Hell?

Dudley Pope
• Decision at Trafalgar

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

Steve Turner
• The Band That Played On

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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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

Tony Farmar
• Privileged Lives

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

Dudley Pope
• Decision at Trafalgar

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

Robert E. Gaebel
• Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World

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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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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

Dudley Pope
• Decision at Trafalgar

Nicholas Rankin
• Telegram from Guernica

Giles Tremlett
• Ghosts of Spain

Paddy Woodworth
• The Basque Country: A Cultural History

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Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution

Gwynfor Evans
• The Fight for Welsh Freedom

Rhys Evans
• Gwynfor Evans: A Portrait of a Patriot

John E. Morris
• The Welsh Wars of Edward I

Mike Parker
• Neighbours from Hell?

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

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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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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

Paul Hill
• The Anglo-Saxons at War 800-1066

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
• The Year 1000

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

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

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David Blackmore
• Blunders & Disasters at Sea

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

Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
• Pirates of New Jersey

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

Gregory Fremont-Barnes
•  Nelson's Officers & Midshipmen

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

Steven E. Maffeo
•  The Perfect Wreck

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

Dudley Pope
• Decision at Trafalgar

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

Julian Stockwin
• Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany

Rayner Thrower
• The Pirate Picture

Alan Villiers
• Square-Rigged Ships

Jane Yolen
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens

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

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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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Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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

Brian Harris
• Injustice

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

Andrew Thompson
• What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?

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

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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

Steven P. Unger
• In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey & Travel Guide

Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage

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