History
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After Eden: A Short History of the World
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To solve the problems of the twenty-first century, historian John Charles Chasteen argues that we must first know our shared human story
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and the desperate struggle for survival
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the American Civil War
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
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A Pulitzer Prize winner's masterful history of the American Civil War and its reverberations across the continent
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
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A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America