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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.

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1776
by David McCullough
1st edition from Simon and Schuster
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
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 Voltaire
Story of Civilization IX
by Will & Ariel Durant
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
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
by Tom Brokaw
from Random House
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Alchemy, the Ancient Science
by Neil Powell
from Doubleday & Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Alexander the Great, Killer of Men
by David J. Lonsdale
from Carroll & Graf Publishers
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
All Shook Up
Pivotal Moments in American History
by Glenn C. Altschuler
from Oxford University
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
America 1933
by Michael Golay
from Free Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
from Random House
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by M. K. Gandhi
from Navajivan Publishing House
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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
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)
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
by Timothy Egan
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Insults Ancient & Modern
by Nancy McPhee
from St. Martin's Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (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)
British and European Combat Aircraft
Combat Aircraft Library
by Paul A. Jackson
from Crescent Books
for Adult
in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
British are Coming
The Revolution Trilogy #1 of 3
by Rick Atkinson
from Henry Holt and Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Chickamauga
by Horace Porter
from Konecky & Konecky
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Conquerors
by Michael Beschloss
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Dead and Those About to Die
by John C. McManus
from New American Library
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Decorative Arts of the Mariner
by Gervis Frere-Cook (editor)
from Little, Brown & Company
for Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Dirt: A Social History
by Terence McLaughlin
from Stein and Day
for Adult
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$42.00 (1 in stock)
Distant Mirror
by Barbara W. Tuchman
from Ballantine Books
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$20.00
Easy Company Soldier
by Sgt. Don Malarkey
from St. Martin's Press
for 11th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$17.50
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps
by Peter Galison
from W. W. Norton and Co.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Embattled Rebel
by James M. McPherson
from Penguin Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Emperor of China
by Jonathan D. Spence
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Fight for Jerusalem
by Dore Gold
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Fighting for Liberty and Virtue
by Marvin Olasky
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
by Gordon S. Wood
from Penguin Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
by Allen C. Guelzo
from Vintage Books
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Great Britain to 1688 / Great Britain Since 1688
by Maurice Ashley and K.B. Smellie
from University of Michigan Press
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Greater Journey
by David McCullough
1st edition from Simon and Schuster
for 11th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
1st edition from Random House
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Greatest Generation Speaks
by Tom Brokaw
1st edition from Random House
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Guest of the Revolution
by Kathryn Koob
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Heir to the Empire City
by Edward P. Kohn
from Basic Books
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
High Flew the Falcons
by Herbert Molloy Mason, Jr.
1st edition from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$5.00 (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 Latin America from the Beginnings to the Present
by Hubert Herring
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
from Harvard University Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
History of the Medieval World
by Susan Wise Bauer
1st edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
for Adult
in Story of the World (Location: HISCUR-SoW)
$35.00 $22.00 (1 in stock)
Hostile Skies
by James J. Hudson
1st edition from Syracuse University Press
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
In Search of History
by Theodore H. White
from Harper & Row
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
by Richard Nixon
1st edition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Indians of the Woodlands
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)
John Wanamaker: King of Merchants
by William Allen Zulker
from Eaglecrest Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Justinian & Theodora
by Robert Browning
from Thames and Hudson
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Killing the Wizards
by Alan Cowell
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
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
by A. A. Hoehling
from Prentice Hall
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Light of Days
by Judy Batalion
from William Morrow & Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Lost Peace
by Robert Dallek
from HarperCollins
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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
by James D. Horan
from Bonanza Books
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Medal of Honor
by Peter Collier
2nd edition from Artisan Publishers
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Miracle at Philadelphia
by Catherine Drinker Bowen
from Little, Brown & Company
for 4th-6th grade
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (3 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
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
by Stephen E. Ambrose
from Simon and Schuster
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Off the Record
by Harry S. Truman, edited by Robert H. Ferrell
from Harper & Row
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Old Master
by Rene Kraus
1st edition from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Old Williamsburg and Her Neighbors
by William Stevens
3rd Printing from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
One Nation Under Debt
by Robert E. Wright
from McGraw-Hill
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Origins of Political Stability
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)
Our Oriental Heritage
Story of Civilization I
by Will Durant
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Out of My Life and Thought
by Albert Schweitzer
Reprint from Henry Holt and Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Paris: the Turbulent City
by Andre Castelot
from Barrie & Rockliff
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Peter the Great: His Life and World
by Robert K. Massie
from Wings Books
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (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)
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
by Dan Jones
from Viking Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (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)
Rising Sun Volume 1
by John Toland
from Random House
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Ronald Reagan
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: Gathering Storm
Second World War Volume 1
by Winston Churchill
from Houghton Mifflin
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy
Second World War Volume 6
by Winston Churchill
from Houghton Mifflin
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Silent Clowns
by Walter Kerr
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
So Long Until Tomorrow
by Lowell Thomas
from William Morrow & Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
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)
Supreme Commander
by Seymour Morris Jr.
from HarperCollins
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Tears of the White Man
by Pascal Bruckner, translated by William R. Beer
from Free Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
The Celts
by Gerard Herm
from St. Martin's Press
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
1st edition from Random House
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
They Met at Gettysburg
by Edward J. Stackpole
from Bonanza Books
for 6th-10th grade
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
This Hallowed Ground
by Bruce Catton
from Doubleday & Company
for 10th grade-adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Three Days in January
by Brett Baier with Catherine Whitney
from William Morrow & Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Touched By Fire
by William C. Davis, ed.
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Traitor and the Spy
by James Thomas Flexner
1st edition from Harcourt, Brace & Company
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Triumph of William McKinley
by Karl Rove
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Vanishing America
by Everett B. Wilson
for 4th-8th grade
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Verdi
by Joseph Wechsberg
1st 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)
War Against the Jews: 1933-1945
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
War Through the Ages
by Lynn Montross
3rd edition from Harper & Row
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
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