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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 $8.00 (1 in stock)
	1776 by David McCullough from Simon and Schuster for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $14.00
	Age of Religious Wars 1559-1715 by Richard S. Dunn 2^nd edition from W. W. Norton and Co. for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow from Penguin Random House for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $10.00 (2 in stock)
	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)
	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 History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $18.99
	Battle Cry of Freedom The Civil War Era Oxford History of the United States by James M. McPherson from Oxford University for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $24.95
	Birth of the Modern World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson from HarperCollins Social Commentary for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $12.00
	Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge by John S. D. Eisenhower 1^st edition from Da Capo Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	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 History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $20.99
	Civil War: A History by Harry Hansen, Introduction by Richard S. Wheeler, Foreword by Gary Gallagher from New American Library for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volume Set by Shelby Foote 1st Vintage Books Ed from Vintage Classics for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $88.00
	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)
	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)
	Crusades by Hilaire Belloc 1992 Printing from Tan Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Czech Reader History, Culture, Politics by Jan Bazant, Nina Bazantova, and Frances Starn, editors from Duke University Press for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Daily Life in Johnson's London by Richard B. Schwartz 1^st edition for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Daughter of Auschwitz My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope by Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant from Hanover Square Press for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Debunking Howard Zinn Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America by Mary Grabar from Regnery Publishing, Inc. for 10th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF) $16.00
	Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey from Anchor Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Discoverers A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin from Vintage Classics for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $22.00
	Eighteenth Century Europe Tradition and Progress, 1751-1789 by Isser Woloch from W. W. Norton and Co. for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	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)
	Forever Free The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner, illustrations edited with commentary by Joshua Brown from Vintage Classics for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (2 in stock)
	Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis from Vintage Classics for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel from Penguin Putnam for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Ghost Map The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson from Riverhead Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong from Charles Scribner's Sons for 10th-Adult in Vietnam War (1957-1975) (Location: HISA-20VIE) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	God's Battalions The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark Reprint from HarperOne for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $17.99
	Great Bridge by David McCullough from Simon and Schuster for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $20.00 $9.00 (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
	Heyday The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age by Ben Wilson from Weidenfeld & Nicolson for 8th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	History of Britain 2 1603-1776 The British Wars History of Britain Trilogy #2 by Simon Schama from BBC Books for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	History of Britain 3 1776-2000 The Fate of the Empire History of Britain Trilogy #3 by Simon Schama from BBC Books for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	History of the American People by Paul Johnson from HarperCollins for 11th-Adult in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF) $22.99
	History of the Twentieth Century The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin Gilbert Reprint from William Morrow & Company for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $23.99
	History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage from Bloomsbury Publishing for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $18.00
	In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood from Facts On File for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $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) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Lafayette Flying Corps Volume 1 by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Leonaur, Ltd. for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $24.00
	Lafayette Flying Corps Volume 2 by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall from Leonaur, Ltd. for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $21.00
	Legacy of John Calvin His Influence On the Modern World The Calvin 500 Series by David W. Hall from P&R Publishing Biography for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 1^st edition from Touchstone for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 2^nd edition from Touchstone for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Life in Medieval Times by Marjorie Rowling Reissue from Perigee Books for 8th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (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)
	Memoirs of the Second World War An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill, abridged by Denis Kelly from HarperCollins for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $25.99
	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)
	On the Edge by David D. Lee, David Horowitz, Peter N. Carroll 1^st edition for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (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: HISA-REF) $28.00
	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: HISA-REF)
	Protestant Reformation 1517-1559 by Lewis W. Spitz from Concordia Publishing House Biographies for 10th-Adult in Reformation
	Renaissance A Short History by Paul Johnson from Modern Library for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $17.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Revolutionary Era: 1789-1850 by Charles Breunig & Matthew Levinger 3^rd edition from W. W. Norton and Co. for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Rewriting of America's History by Catherine Millard from Horizon Books for 10th-Adult in America's Christian Heritage (Location: HISA-CH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Runaway Slaves Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin from Oxford University for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	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 Lion A Biography of General Joshua L. Chamberlain by Willard M. Wallace Reprint from Stan Clark Military Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (1 in stock)
	Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin from Simon and Schuster for 9th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	The Gate by John Van Der Zee from Touchstone for 8th-12th grade in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen from Morningside House, Inc. for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $9.00 (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 History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $20.00 $11.00 (1 in stock)
	Victory of Reason How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success by Rodney Stark from Random House for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $18.00
	Vietnam and America by Marvin E. Gettleman 2^nd edition from Grove Publishing for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-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 History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Voyager Out The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank 1^st edition from Ballantine Books for 11th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $2.00 (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)
	With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge from Ballantine Books for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $5.00 (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)

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