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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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	1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth from Penguin Putnam for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $16.00
	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 Great Ages of Man from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	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 Progress by S. C. Burchell from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	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)
	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)
	Ancient Egypt 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 Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Autobiography of Charles G. Finney by Charles G. Finney from Bethany House Autobiography for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Barbarian Europe for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Battle from the Start The Life of Nathan Bedford Forest by Brian Steel Wills from HarperCollins for 9th grade-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Byzantium for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	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)
	Civil War: 1850-1895 American History by Era Volume 5 by Auriana Ojeda, book editor from Greenhaven Press for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John R. Hale from HarperCollins for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Classical Greece for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Colonial Period: 1607-1750 American History by Era Volume 2 by Brenda Stalcup (editor) from Greenhaven Press for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $11.00 (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)
	D-Day: June 6, 1944 The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose from Touchstone for 9th-Adult in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
	Early Islam Great Ages of Man by Desmond Stewart from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Early Japan Great Ages of Man from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Egyptian Religion by Sir Wallis Budge from G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. for 9th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel 1^st edition from Open Court Publishing for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (2 in stock)
	Gilded Age: A History in Documents Pages From History by Janette Thomas Greenwood from Oxford University for 9th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton from Back Bay Books for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Historic India Great Ages of Man by Lucille Schulberg from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	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)
	Imperial Rome Great Ages of Man from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	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)
	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) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Houghton Mifflin for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Lafayette Flying Corps Volume 1 by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Leonaur, Ltd. for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $27.04
	Lafayette Flying Corps Volume 2 by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Leonaur, Ltd. for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $23.66
	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)
	Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D. Horan from Bonanza Books for 8th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $3.20 (1 in stock)
	Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick from Penguin Putnam for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $8.00 (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)
	Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West by LeRoy R. Hafen & Harvey L. Carter from University of Nebraska Biography for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $21.95 $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Mummy Funereal Rites & Customs in Ancient Egypt by Ernest A. Wallis Budge New edition from Senate for 8th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (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)
	Reformation Great Ages of Man by Edith Simon from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Renaissance by John R. Hale from Time-Life Books for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Revolutionary Period: 1750-1783 American History by Era Volume 3 by Bruce Thompson (Book Editor) from Greenhaven Press for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $13.00 (1 in stock)
	Rise of Russia for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Six Days How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen from Pocket Books History for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	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)
	Speakers of the House by Judith Bentley from Franklin Watts for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (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)
	Twentieth Century for 9th-Adult in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
	Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $20.00 $11.00 (3 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 Chief Joseph by Helen Addison Howard & Dan L. McGrath from Bison Books for 7th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (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 Era (1850-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan from Houghton Mifflin for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (2 in stock)
	Wright Brothers by David McCullough Reprint from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $16.99

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