HISTORY
The titles in this category make the past exciting.
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The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
$16.95Howard Zinn's life and work are the stuff of legend. His People's History of the United States has sold over two million copies and has altered how we see and teach history. A hero in word and deed, Zinn's views on freedom, fairness, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. Learn More -
The History of White People
$17.95Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. Learn More -
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
$19.95When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New york Times’s Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history.” Learn More -
The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
$14.99“An irreverent romp through history’s best bits,” The Mental Floss History of the World is an amazingly entertaining joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. Learn More -
The Nazi Seance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
$18.00World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality of their lives. Learn More -
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
$16.00The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Learn More -
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
$16.00A beguiling concoction-equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller. Learn More -
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
$14.00A thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group - the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. Learn More -
The Second Messiah: Templars, The Turin Shroud And The Great Secret Of Freemasonry
$18.95Is the Shroud of Turin genuine? Learn More -
The Secret History of the World
$16.95They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history?or what we come to know as history?has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? What if it's the wrong part? Learn More
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