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 The Civil War by Julius CaesarThe Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.99 |  | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Essays by Samuel JohnsonWith his wit, eloquence, and shrewd perception of contemporary morals, Samuel Johnson was the most versatile writer of the English... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.56 | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
 World War I by S. L. A. MarshallGeneral Marshall drew on his firsthand experience as a soldier and lifetime of military service to pen this forthright history of what people once believed would be the last great war. At: Local Library Amazon $5.14 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Book of Martyrs by John FoxeThis Christian classic tells the stories of brave men and women who were martyred for their faith in the fourteenth through sixteenth... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 Read Online | | Renaissance/ Reformation | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Travels by Marco PoloIt was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.98 | | Middle Ages 600-1300 | Secondary & Adult | Biography, General |
 Church History in Plain Language by Bruce ShelleyIt's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" and "ages." Church History in Plain... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.97 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, General |
 A History of the American People by Paul Johnson"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." At: Local Library Amazon $9.22 | | Colonial to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Tales by Washington IrvingA writer of great urbanity and poise, Washington Irving was America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. Here in one volume... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.97 |  | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Brightest Heaven of Invention by Peter LeithartShakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.14 | | Renaissance/ Reformation | Secondary & Adult | General |
 The Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books in the Western tradition, as well as its first true historical... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.60 | | Ancient before 500BC | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Democracy in America by De TocquevilleWhen it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America was lauded in all... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.94 | | 1800's | Secondary & Adult | General |
 Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe book that shook the world First time from Signet Classic This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary,... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.95 Read Online | | 1800's | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.55 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
| History of the English by Winston Churchill To most people Churchill is known as one of Britain's greatest statesmen. That overshadows his literary achievements. He begins his account... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $15.98 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Story of Liberty by Charles Carleton Coffin A fast and easy read relating events over the past 700 years. Coffin clearly illustrates the slow struggle of the human race towards freedom ... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.21 | | RenRef to Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Heroes of the City of Man by Peter Leithart Leithart's Heroes of the City of Man analyzes some of the grand classics of ancient literature—Theogeny, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $25.00 | | Ancient before 500BC | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Invitation to the Classics by Os Guinness Invites readers to learn more about the great authors and books of Western culture, and inspires them to read these masterworks.... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $16.49 | | Not History Related | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.16 | | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Crisis by Thomas Paine Thomas Paine wrote the American Crisis in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the moral of the Continental Army. ... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $8.99 | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
| 95 Theses by Martin Luther Of course the 95 theses haven't changed much in the last few years! But this booklet is really nice. Its very sturdy for a small booklet... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $3.50 | | Renaissance/ Reformation | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.48 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede There is a definite thrill to reading the actual words set down by the infamously unassuming monk himself. This is why there are so many... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.20 | | Ancient to MiddleAges | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith One of the great classics of economics, this influential work by the noted 18th-century philosopher and political economist was the first... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.06 | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Essays by Frederick Douglass Representative selections from the great body of speeches and writings of the great abolitionist and statesman focus on the slave trade,... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $1.50 | | 1800's | Secondary & Adult | General |
| How to Read Slowly by James Sire James Sire is a great Christian author who explains worldviews better than most (if not all). This book discussed different types of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.20 | | Not History Related | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter His introduction begins, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.00 | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Histories by Tacitus In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.88 | | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.99 Read Online | | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| The Story of Painting by H.W. Janson At: Local Library Amazon $5.30 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I.... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Story of Christianity by Michael Collins Providing a truly global view of Christianity across all denominations, The Story of Christianity covers the Old Testament to the present... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.94 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| How to Read Church History by Comby Introduction to early Christianity sets it in teh broader context of the poltical, social, and economic development in the wider world. Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $8.48 | | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose Stephen E. Ambrose combines history and journalism to describe how American GIs battled their way to the Rhineland. He focuses on the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.76 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.94 | | Modern 1900-present | Secondary & Adult | General |