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The American Revolution wasn't inevitable — and it almost didn't happen.
InThe American Revolution: From the Boston Tea Party to Yorktown, historian James R. Whitfield delivers the definitive single-volume account of the eight-year war and political revolution that...
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Chiify
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2026-05-28
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**For seventy-two years, American women were told the same thing:** the vote is not your business. Sit down. Be silent. Know your place.
They refused.
If you've ever wondered how women *actually* won the right to vote — not the sanitized, one-paragraph version from a...
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2026-05-27
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**Hero or villain? Genius or monster?** Everything you were taught about Christopher Columbus is being torn down - and replaced with arguments just as one-sided as the myth they're attacking.
You've felt the whiplash. The schoolbook hero who "discovered America" is now...
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2026-05-27
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**Imagine standing at the edge of a blank map** — a thousand miles of unknown wilderness ahead, no roads, no rescue, no idea what waits beyond the next ridge. That's where the greatest adventure in American history began.
You've heard the names Lewis and Clark. Maybe...
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2026-05-27
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The Complete Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Volume 1 brings together some of the most powerful and influential works by Theodore Dreiser, a central figure of American literary naturalism. This illustrated collection includes An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie,The...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-05-27
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**"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."** With one line, Ronald Reagan rewired American politics — and we're still living inside the world he built.
Yet most of us know only the cartoon version. To one side, Reagan is a flawless...
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2026-05-27
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On October 4, 1957, a single beeping signal from orbit changed the world forever — and terrified a nation.
For the first time, America wasn't first. The Soviets had beaten the United States into space, and overnight the sky itself looked like enemy territory. What...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**A senator holds up a piece of paper and claims it lists the communists hiding in your government.** He has no real list. It doesn't matter. Within months, careers are destroyed, families shattered, and a nation grows too frightened to speak.
Sound familiar? The fear,...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**In 1920, an entire people stood up and declared: our lives are worth celebrating, our culture has value, we are fully human and capable of anything.** Today that sounds obvious. Back then, it was revolutionary — and it exploded out of a few square miles of upper...
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2026-05-27
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**It was called impossible.** Cross a continent — mountains, deserts, and a thousand miles of nothing — with iron rails laid by hand. No machines. No roads. Just men, gunpowder, and an ambition big enough to bind a nation together.
You've seen the famous photo: two...
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2026-05-27
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**You think you know George Washington.** The face on the dollar bill. The cherry tree that never happened. The marble statue who feels less like a man than a monument — distant, cold, impossible to relate to.
That's the problem. Generations of myth-making turned the...
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2026-05-27
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**A nation that began as a thin strip along the Atlantic. Fifty years later — a continental empire stretching from ocean to ocean.** How did it happen? And what did it cost the people already living there?
You've heard the phrase "Manifest Destiny," maybe seen the...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**It tore families apart. It killed 620,000 Americans. It decided what kind of nation we would become** — yet most of us know only a handful of dates and a few famous names.
You've felt it: the sense that the Civil War matters enormously, but the textbook version left...
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2026-05-27
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**Thirteen days. Fewer than two hundred men. One crumbling mission against an army.** They knew they would die — and they stayed anyway.
You know the phrase "Remember the Alamo." You've heard the names Bowie, Crockett, Travis. But the legend has buried the real story —...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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In the spring of 1898, America went to war for just ten weeks — and woke up an empire.
Most people know two things about the Spanish-American War: "Remember the Maine," and Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. But the real story — how one explosion in Havana...
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Chiify
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2026-05-26
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''Army of Shadows'' (L'Armée des ombres) is a gripping, partially fictionalized account of the French Resistance during World War II, written in 1943 by Joseph Kessel. Kessel, a member of the Resistance himself, created a bleak, hyper-realistic tribute to the ordinary...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-25
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Can machines rewild us?
An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class differences are only the first challenge when romance blooms between college girls at a soil remediation site. A...
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Stelliform Press
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2026-05-21
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It is 1348: as the plague rages in Florence, ten young people flee to the countryside, and to pass the time pleasantly—and perhaps to forget the horror—they each tell a story over the course of ten days. This is the well-known “framework” that encompasses the most...
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Cactus
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2026-05-20
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''Prince of Foxes'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the popular historical adventure novel about Andrea Orsini, a peasant masquerading as a nobleman who serves as a secret agent for the ruthless Cesare Borgia in Renaissance Italy. The story details Orsini's journey from a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-20
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''Captain from Castile'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the best-selling historical adventure novel that follows Pedro de Vargas, a young Spanish nobleman who flees the Spanish Inquisition and joins Hernán Cortés on his expedition to conquer the Aztecs in Mexico.
Set in the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-20
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