HISTORY
The titles in this category make the past exciting.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
$18.00The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel examines the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations. Learn More -
Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
$25.00During the Great Depression, out in drought stricken South Dakota, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was put together by one of the sport's most unlikely champions. Learn More -
Common Sense (Penguin Civic Classics 2)
$12.00In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Learn More -
Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right
$26.95Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, "The founders were on MY side! See, it’s all right here!" But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to the historical one. Learn More -
Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade
$24.95Bursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed member. Learn More -
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
$24.00Uncritically lauded by many on the left, and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban revolution is almost universally viewed in one-dimensional Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution’s impact and legacy. Learn More -
Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
$15.95In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. Learn More -
December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
$24.99December 1941 traces, day-by-day, the most important 31 days in the history of America's participation in WWII, which snuffed out the lives of millions and changed history forever. Learn More -
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
$28.95Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. Learn More -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
$28.95James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. Learn More
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