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Lars Brownworth (Author)
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2010-06-01
Three Rivers Press (CA)
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often
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Jonathan Lyons (Author)
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2010-03-30
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
<DIV><DIV><B>“Dust will never gather on Jonathan Lyons’ lively new book of medieval history…Lyons tells his multilayered story deftly, forsaking the tyranny of
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Allen C. Guelzo (Author)
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2008-02-05
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. T
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Edward Dolnick (Author)
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2002-09-17
Harpercollins
Edward Dolnick's <I>Down the Great Unknown</I> depicts the "last epic journey on American soil," John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Grand Canyon and the
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William C. Davis (Author)
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1999-03-01
Harpercollins
Ever since the day in March 1836 when an obscure Spanish mission in Texas fell to Mexican forces led by President Santa Anna, Americans have been exhorted to "r
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Susan Dunn (Author)
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2007-05-21
Perseus Books Group
<div>For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, J
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Douglas L. Wilson (Author)
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2007-10-09
Random House Inc
Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confo
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Rodney Stark (Author)
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2009-09-29
HarperOne
<p> In <i>God''s Battalions</i>, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, c
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Elliot Jaspin (Author)
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2007-03-05
Perseus Books Group
<div>Leave now, or die! From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoe
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Chris Wickham (Author)
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2010-08-03
Penguin Books
<B> A unique and enlightening look at Europe''s so-called Dark Ages </B> <BR><BR> Defying the conventional Dark Ages view of European history between A.D. 400 a
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Robert Pierce Forbes (Author)
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2009-08-15
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-lev
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Jean Pfaelzer (Author)
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2007-05-29
Random House Inc
<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK</b><br><br>The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in
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Michael F. Holt (Author)
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2003-05-01
Most Americans remember the Whigs as morally uptight New Englanders who provided us with some of our more mediocre presidents. In his exhaustively researched
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Richard Moran (Author)
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2003-11-11
Random House Inc
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more human
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Author)
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2002-11-12
Random House Inc
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from prein
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Benjamin Reiss (Author)
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2008-09-01
<DIV><DIV><DIV>In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected cen
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Piers Read (Author)
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2009-01-06
St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><P>In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic caliphate for over four hundred years, fell to an army of Christian knights intent on l
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Peter S. Wells (Author)
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2009-08-24
W. W. Norton & Company
<strong>A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.</strong> The barbarians who destroyed the glory tha
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Ronald C. White (Author)
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2006-11-07
Simon & Schuster
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the
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John Ernest (Editor)
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2008-05-05
It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, V
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Conevery Valencius (Author)
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2004-08-06
Perseus Books Group
"An original, thought-provoking book...Those who only have the time or the inclination to read a few books on the period should make every effort to read this o
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