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In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the e...
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"Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail."-Sarah...
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The tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along wi...
View full detailsYour English Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans was the first book to provide a logical research routine for family historians based in North...
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Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in Am...
View full detailsJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an E...
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Advance Praise for Gravity's Arc"A beautifully written exposition of the still mysterious force that holds our universe together--and the even more...
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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...
View full detailsAn authoritative, accessible overview of history's greatest literary figureThe great dramatist Ben Jonson wrote that William Shakespeare "was not o...
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A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter! Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride a...
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The Ultimate Warship Her keel measured 126 feet, and she stretched to 160 feet overall. Her 46.5-foot beam sacrificed speed for the sake of stabili...
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Power, pageantry, and pride Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface,...
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The Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world——by entrusting c...
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The history of Ireland told through the words of the people who lived it Eyewitness to Irish History draws upon original source materials to captu...
View full detailsFor a century after its incorporation in 1740, Wilmington, North Carolina remained a sleepy port city. Then, the coming of steam-power, especially ...
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Corpus Christi, Texas, is one of the most pristine coastal cities on the Gulf of Mexico. Once a simple nineteenth-century trading post at the mouth...
View full detailsThis is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chron...
View full detailsMore than 250 years passed from the founding of the first English colony in the New World at Jamestown in Virginia until the beginning of the Ameri...
View full detailsBoston is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Boston has consistently built and reshaped its appe...
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An up-close introduction to the most admired warriors in history "They mounted their horses, grasped the lances made of fine Bordeaux Steel, clo...
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By the end of 1798, France--"our oldest ally"--had captured or sunk more than eight hundred American ships, and President John Adams called George ...
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The first portion of the classic volume written by Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, covering the history of Scotland up to Scott's time. We earn a co...
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(From the Preface) This book on the history of Farmington represents more than two and a half years of work by the staff of the Farmington Public L...
View full details"Thomas Fleming gives us an unforgettable story about an immigrant family--his family--as it struggles to find a place in the American century. He ...
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