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This isn't some sketchy R-rated section for those 18 and over. The heading merely indicates that these aren't titles of a specifically "educational" nature, in the sense that they'd fit well into a K-8 curriculum. That said, you probably don't want your kiddos reading Intellectuals by Paul Johnson.

We believe it's important for parents to know at least as much history as their children, especially during a child's formative years, and especially especially if you're teaching him or her at home. This isn't just so you can answer questions more easily—how can we impart a sense of the trajectory of the human story to our kids if we have a truncated or incomplete view ourselves?

A lot of the books here aren't "comprehensive" in the sense that they span continents and epochs. Many of them are, but the point isn't to give you the whole picture, but to fill in gaps and make connections. Plus, history is just plain interesting, and while it's still beneficial, reading about the Chinese dynasties or the first overland railroad is as fun as it is instructive.

These aren't primarily "literary" histories. Many excellent writers are represented, but most of them are first and foremost professional historians, and they approach their subjects as academics and scholars rather than artists. Sadly, the two have grown increasingly apart since the days of men like Hakluyt and the Venerable Bede.

Have fun browsing our collection. Its construction has been less intentional on our part than that of many other categories, but we haven't chosen anything that looks boring, weighted too heavily against (at the least) a fairly conservative worldview, or treats topics best unconsidered. While we specifically designate "adults" as the prime beneficiaries of this section, many high school students would be just as comfortable and have just as much fun here. If you think learning shouldn't be fun, we could surely find you some really dreary titles if you ask nicely.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

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	1776 by David McCullough 1^st edition from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	African Kingdoms Great Ages of Man by Basil Davidson from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Age of Enlightenment Great Ages of Man by Peter Gay from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Age of Exploration Great Ages of Man by John R. Hale from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Age of Faith Story of Civilization IV by Will Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $15.00 (2 in stock)
	Age of Kings Great Ages of Man by Charles Blitzer from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Age of Louis XIV Story of Civilization VIII by Will & Ariel Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Age of Reason Begins Story of Civilization VII by Will Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Air Forces of the World by Sue Butterworth, editor from Chartwell Books for 9th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $18.00 (1 in stock)
	Album of Memories Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw from Random House for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	American Caesar Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester from Little, Brown & Company for 10th grade-adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Ancient America Great Ages of Man by Jonathan Norton Leonard from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Ancient China Great Ages of Man by Edward H. Schafer from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor from World Publishing Company for 9th-Adult 1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Archko Volume Unabridged Edition by Drs. McIntosh and Twyman, translators Reprint Edition from Keats Publishing, Inc for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Army of the Potomac - 3 Volumes by Bruce Catton from Doubleday & Company for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Assassins A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis from The Folio Society for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins from W. W. Norton and Co. for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Beards' New Basic History of the United States by Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard, and William Beard from Doubleday & Company for 10th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Brave Men by Ernie Pyle from Grosset & Dunlap for 10th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Caesar and Christ Story of Civilization III by Will Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Centennial History of the Civil War - 3 Volumes by Bruce Catton from Doubleday & Company for 10th-Adult in American Civil War (1860-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW)
	Chickamauga Bloody Battle in the West by Horace Porter from Konecky & Konecky for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Cradle of Civilization by Samuel Noah Kramer from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Crusades by Michael Paine from Chartwell Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman from Ballantine Books for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $20.00
	Early Islam Great Ages of Man by Desmond Stewart from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Easy Company Soldier The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Sgt. Don Malarkey from St. Martin's Press for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $17.50
	Egyptian Religion by Sir Wallis Budge from G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. for 9th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Glory and the Dream - Volume 1 A Narrative History of America 1932-1972 by William Manchester from Little, Brown & Company for 10th grade-adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Glory and the Dream - Volume 2 A Narrative History of America 1932-1972 by William Manchester from Little, Brown & Company for 10th grade-adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton from Back Bay Books for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Greater Journey Americans in Paris by David McCullough 1^st edition from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant from Charles Scribner's Sons for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume 1 Birth of Britain by Winston S. Churchill from Dodd, Mead & Co. for 7th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal by Richard Nixon 1^st edition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Indians of the Woodlands From Prehistoric Times to 1725 by George E. Hyde from University of Oklahoma Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	James Fenimore Cooper, the American Scott by George Dekker from Routledge for 8th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Johnstown Flood The Incredible Story Behind one of the Most Devastating "Natural" Disasters America Has Ever Known by David McCullough from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Justinian & Theodora by Robert Browning from Thames and Hudson for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Kitchener's Mob The Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall from Houghton Mifflin for 10th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Houghton Mifflin for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Last Men Out by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin 1st Printing from Free Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lexington Goes Down The Last Seven Hours of a Fighting Lady by A. A. Hoehling from Prentice Hall for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lost Executioner A Story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop 1^st edition from Walker and Company for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, ed. from Book-of-the-Month Club for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D. Horan from Bonanza Books for 8th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Mirror of War: The Washington Star Reports the Civil War by John W. Stepp, I. William Hill from Prentice Hall for 8th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Mistress Bradstreet by Charlotte Gordon from Little, Brown & Company for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Mosby's Rangers From the High Tide of the Confederacy to the Last Days at Appomattox–The Story of the Most Famous Command of the Civil War and its Legendary Leader by Jeffry D. Wert from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Origins of Political Stability England 1675-1725 by J.H. Plumb from Houghton Mifflin for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Our Mountain Hermitage by Anne Roller Issler from Stanford University Press for 8th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades by Jonathan Riley-Smith from Oxford University for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Paris: the Turbulent City 1783 to 1871 by Andre Castelot from Barrie & Rockliff for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Planets, The by Dava Sobel from Viking Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Reformation Story of Civilization Volume VI by Will Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $15.00 (2 in stock)
	Reformation Great Ages of Man by Edith Simon from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Renaissance Story of Civilization V by Will Durant from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E)
	Rising Sun Volume 1 The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 by John Toland from Random House for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Ronald Reagan How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza from Free Press for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Second World War: Closing the Ring Second World War Volume 5 by Winston S. Churchill from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for 10th grade-adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Second World War: Grand Alliance Second World War Volume 3 by Winston S. Churchill from Bantam Books for 10th grade-adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Second World War: Hinge of Fate Second World War Volume 4 by Winston S. Churchill from Houghton Mifflin for 10th grade-adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Something That Will Surprise the World The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers by Susan Dunn, editor, foreword by Joseph J. Ellis from Basic Books for 10th-Adult in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
	Soul of the Sword by Robert O'Connell from Free Press for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Stillness at Appomattox The Army of the Patomac Volume 3 by Bruce Catton from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 10th grade-adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Civilization - 10 Volume Set by Will Durant for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Story of Civilization - 11 Volume Set by Will Durant for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	The Celts The People Who Came Out of the Darkness by Gerard Herm from St. Martin's Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	The Pioneers The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	This Hallowed Ground The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton from Doubleday & Company for 10th grade-adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Touched By Fire A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War, in Assocation with Civil War Times Volume One by William C. Davis, ed. from Black Dog & Leventhal for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Verdi by Joseph Wechsberg 1^st edition from Putnam Juvenile for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Voyage of the Challenger by Eric Linklater from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith from Macmillan for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. for 9th-Adult in American Civil War (1860-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman 1^st edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (2 in stock)

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