History Books

Brink of Destruction: A Quotable History of the Civil War, edited by Randall Bedwell, is a no-holds-barred look at the American Civil War through ...

"Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envis...

This is the complete story of the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, which for almost two hundred years has guided mariners through the treacherous water...

What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us? Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover wh...

When Richard M. Hollingshead Jr. first projected a movie onto a white bedsheet stretched between two trees at his home in Camden, New Jersey, in 19...

The history of the county and the families who lived in Clay County TN, 1870-1986. We earn a commission for purchases made through the following li...

They did the dirty work of the American RevolutionTheir spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of...

During the evening of April 7, 1862, twenty-four men infiltrated the Confederate lines below Shelbyville, Tennessee, on their way to Marietta, Geo...

These ancestors ventured west to settle an uneasy land from exploration by the Spainards to war with the Mexican government and its declaration of ...

A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to...

The closest we've ever come to the end of the world "DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important ...

The daring, low-level mission to the oil refineries of Ploesti has long been considered one of the most significant missions of World War II. The A...

paintings by Elizabeth Johns To many people who gaze across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, Alaska, Mount Susitna looks like a slumbering woman.  The Sl...

"Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh."...

History and pictures of the alumni during the 1950s at Western Kentucky University. We earn a commission for purchases made through the following l...

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down “If you want to school yourself on the women who have paved the way for the rest of us, then this is the book for...

Celebrate Black Historical Figures Who Changed HistoryEmbrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact o...

Hidden History, Strange Stories, and Hard-to-Believe Headlines What if there was a flip side to the history channel? What would you do with all the...

#1 New Release in LGBT Studies and Biographies & Memoirs ─ Stories to Help You PersevereLive Through the Hardships: Life is complicated and mes...

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin left humanity’s first footprints on the Moon, July 20, 1969.“A beautiful demonstration of how cur...

After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tenn...