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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 schoolers 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 is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes 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 from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in American Revolution (1765-1783) (Location: HISA-18REV)
	5 Cities That Ruled the World How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History by Douglas Wilson from Thomas Nelson Publishers in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART) $13.50
	America's Longest War by George C. Herring 2^nd edition from McGraw-Hill for 11th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor from World Publishing Company for 9th-Adult 1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Band of Brothers E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen Ambrose, Foreword by Tom Hanks 25th anniversary from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E) $18.99
	Birth of the Modern World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson from HarperCollins Social Commentary for 10th-Adult in Modern History (Location: HISW-MOD) $10.00
	Citizen Soldiers The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen Ambrose from Simon and Schuster Historical Non-Fiction for 10th-Adult in WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E) $20.00
	Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman from Ballantine Books for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00
	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 WWII: European Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2E) $17.50
	Edward VIII The Road to Abdication by Frances Lonsdale, Lady Donaldson Abridged from Lippincott for 8th-Adult in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks First Edition from Penguin Press for Adult in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley & Ron Powers from Bantam Books for 11th-Adult in WWII: Pacific Theater (Location: HISA-20WW2P)
	Flyboys by James Bradley 2^nd edition from Back Bay Books for 10th grade-adult in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
	General's War by Bernard E. Trainor, Michael R. Gordon 1^st edition from Little, Brown & Company for Adult in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	God's Battalions The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark Reprint from HarperOne for 11th-Adult in Middle Ages (Location: HISW-MID)
	Great Bridge by David McCullough from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00 $7.65 (1 in stock)
	Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith from Mariner Books for 10th-Adult in Great Depression (1929-1939) (Location: HISA-20GD) $16.99
	History of the American People by Paul Johnson from HarperCollins for 11th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISRF-US)
	History of the Medieval World From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer 1^st edition from W. W. Norton and Co. for Adult in Story of the World (Location: HISCUR-SoW) $35.00
	History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage from Bloomsbury Publishing for 10th-Adult in History Spines & Surveys (Location: HISRF-SPINE) $18.00
	Kennedy Presidency An Oral History of the Era by Deborah Hart Strober, Gerald S. Strober Revised from Potomac Books for 11th-Adult in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Labor's Untold Story The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women by Herbert M. Morais, Richard O. Boyer 3^rd edition from United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of Amer for 9th-Adult in Industrialization & Organized Labor (Location: HISA-19IND)
	Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan Mahler Reprint from Picador for 11th-Adult in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Last Men Out by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin 1st Printing from Free Press for 10th-Adult in Vietnam War (1957-1975) (Location: HISA-20VIE) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 2^nd edition from Touchstone for 10th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISRF-US) $13.50 $9.00 (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) $20.40
	Modern Times The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson from HarperCollins Social Commentary for 10th-Adult in Modern History (Location: HISW-MOD) $14.00
	Once Upon a Distant War by William Prochnau from Vintage Classics for Adult in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Original Story by Mr. John Barton from Eerdmans for 10th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison from Unknown Publisher for 10th-Adult in History for Adults $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Patriot's History of the United States From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen from Sentinel for 10th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISRF-US) $27.00
	Patriot's History of the United States From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen from Sentinel for 10th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISRF-US)
	Power of Gold History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for 9th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester from Harper Perennial for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.80 (1 in stock)
	Protestant Reformation 1517-1559 by Lewis W. Spitz from Concordia Publishing House Biographies for 10th-Adult in Reformation
	Protestant Reformation: Major Documents by Lewis W. Spitz from Concordia Publishing House in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: ZCLE-CHR) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Renaissance A Short History by Paul Johnson from Modern Library for 10th-Adult in Renaissance & Reformation (Location: HISW-REN) $15.00
	Roll, Jordan, Roll The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese from Vintage Classics for 11th-Adult in Slavery & the Underground Railroad (Location: HISA-19SL)
	Saviors and Survivors Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror from Doubleday & Company in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Silent Night The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub from Plume Books in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $12.75
	Translator by Daoud Hari 1^st edition from Random House for 10th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in Lewis & Clark (Location: HISA-19L&C) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Valiant Ambition George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution 1^st edition from Viking Studio Books in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Vietnam and America by Marvin E. Gettleman 2^nd edition from Grove Publishing for 10th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Vietnam and America The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War by Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn B. Young, H. Bruce Franklin 2^nd edition from Hickory Grove Press for 9th-Adult in Vietnam War (1957-1975) (Location: HISA-20VIE) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	War Diaries An Anthology of Daily Wartime Diary Entries Throughout History by Irene Taylor, Alan Taylor from Canongate Books for 10th-Adult in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	War That Killed Achilles The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Reprint from Penguin Putnam for Adult Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks in History for Adults
	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 Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT) $4.00 (1 in stock)

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