HISTORY
The titles in this category make the past exciting.
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
$21.95Chomsky reinterprets the last 3 decades! Learn More -
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
$22.00In Trinity, illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm tells the history of the race to build - and the decision to drop - the first atomic bomb, and the ethical debates that followed. Learn More -
The Portable Malcolm X Reader
$22.00A new look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable. Learn More -
The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
$29.95In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Learn More -
The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
$27.00The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an indispensable guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues in the upcoming election. Learn More -
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
$27.95Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Learn More -
The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
$25.00The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. Learn More -
The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight
$24.99A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting. Learn More -
The Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived
$25.95An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 true stories of the most distinctive, self-created people on earth. Learn More -
The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Aliens, Lost Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History
$21.95Where did "modern" civilization begin? What lies beneath the waves? Do myths describe interstellar impact? How'd they lift that stone? Was the Ark of the Covenant a mechanical device? Were there survivors of an Atlantean catastrophe? Who really discovered the "New" World? Learn More
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