Category - History
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch 1949
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation...
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The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American...
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have be...
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Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessme...
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Obras Completas (Anne Frank) / Anne Frank: The Collected Works
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Una recopilación magistral que contextualiza la importancia que tuvo la escritura para la supervivencia física y espiritual de Anne Frank, y tall...
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Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /From 1915 to 1971 the large U.S. Steel plant was a major part of Duluth's landscape and life. Just as important was Morgan Park--an innovatively ...
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Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a wi...
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Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against ...
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This is the story of a political miracle—the perfect match of man and moment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America to...
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestse...
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Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to ...
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the n...
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We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a lastminute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogs the ex...
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Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the c...
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has...
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Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively litt...
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To The Bitter End
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside the Wolf's Lair (Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance—exp...
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The Kennedy -Khrushchev Letters
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the first tim...
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German Colonialism in a Global Age
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the col...
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade...
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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge From Nazism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the 1930s, many tens of thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. And in the short, terrifying months b...
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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and A...
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I Give You My Heart: A True Story of Courage and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /An unlikely friendship between two couples leads to one of the most remarkable acts of selfless sacrifice when the Nazis invade their country. A ...
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