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The Cartoon History of the United States

by Larry Gonick
Paperback, 2005
Tags
history, graphic novel, us history, american history, nonfiction, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Series
Cartoon Guide
Call number
973/.0207 20

South to Freedom: Runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War

by Alice L. Baumgartner
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, african american history, underground railroad, mexican history, hb
Call number
306.3/62

Longitude: The true story of a long genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, history of technology, longitude, biography, tpb
Call number
526.6209 20

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

by Dave Barry
Paperback, 1990
Tags
humor, history, tpb
Call number
973/.0207 20

A History of Ancient Egypt

by Nicolas-Christophe Grimal
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, history, egypt, ancient egypt, tpb
Call number
932.01 20

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, history, china, chinese history, tpb
Call number
920.051 B 22

Made in America

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, language, history, english language, tpb
Call number
420.973 20

The Cartoon History of the Universe III

by Larry Gonick
Paperback, 2002
Tags
cartoon history, 03, nonfiction, history, graphic novel, world history, tpb
Series
The Cartoon History of the Universe (3)
Call number
902.07 20

The Cartoon History of the Universe II

by Larry Gonick
Paperback, 1994
Tags
cartoon history, 02, nonfiction, history, graphic novel, world history, tpb
Series
The Cartoon History of the Universe (2)
Call number
902.07 20

The Cartoon History of the Universe

by Larry Gonick
Paperback, 1990
Tags
cartoon history, 01, nonfiction, history, graphic novel, world history, tpb
Series
The Cartoon History of the Universe (1)
Call number
902.07 20

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1991
Tags
graphic novel, history, biography, wwii, holocaust, tpb
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Call number
741.5/973 21

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

The World of Caffeine: The science and culture of the world's most popular drug

by Bennett Alan Weinberg
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, history, food, coffee, food history, tpb
Call number
613.8/4 21

The Search for the Giant Squid: The biology and mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature

by Richard Ellis
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, squid, cephalopods, invertebrates, history, biology, tpb
Call number
594.58

Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas gave the world

by Nelson Foster Editor
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, food, history, food history, columbian exchange, tpb
Call number
641.3/097 20

The World Series: An illustrated encyclopedia of the fall classic

by Josh Leventhal
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, baseball, coffee table, history, reference
Call number
796.357/646/03 21

Four Hundred Souls: A community history of African America, 1619-2019

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, american history, african american history, essays, hb
Call number
973/.0496073

This New Ocean: The story of the First Space Age

by William E. Burrows
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, space, space exploration, apollo, tpb
Call number
629.4 21

A Man on the Moon: The voyages of the Apollo astronauts

by Andrew Chaikin
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, jane's, space, space program, space exploration, history, moon, apollo, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
629.45/4/0973

The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, books, book about books, hb
Call number
022.409 21

Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that explain everything about the world

by Tim Marshall
Paperback, 2015
Tags
geography, history, maps, tpb, unread
Series
Politics of Place (1)
Call number
320.12

Atlantic: Great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories

by Simon Winchester
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
history, geography, oceanography, atlantic ocean, hb
Call number
551.46/13

The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast

by Andrew Blum
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
meteorology, history, weather, hb
Call number
551.63

Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ecology, anthropology, human geography, tpb, ftpml
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Call number
304.28

In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to find the world's first prophet

by Paul Kriwaczek
Paperback, 2004
Tags
religion, travel, history, zoroastrianism, zoroastrians, tpb
Call number
295

Ancient Athens on five drachmas a day

by Philip Matyszak
Paperback, 2008
Tags
history, greece, ancient greece, humor, tpb
Series
Traveling on 5
Call number
914.9512/04

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America

by Lillian Faderman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, lgbtq, history, society, jane's, lambda winner, tpb, for values of century excluding the last decade
Collection
Jane's
Call number
306.76/63/0973 20

Queer Pulp : perverted passions from the golden age of the paperback

by Susan Stryker
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, books, book about books, illustrated, lgbtq, pulp, jane's, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
813.509353 21

The 1619 Project: A new origin story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
unread, history, american history, african american history, hb
Call number
973

The Worst Hard Time: The untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

by Timothy Egan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
history, us history, american history, dust bowl, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
978/.032

Ad Infinitum: A biography of Latin

by Nicholas Ostler
Paperback, 2008
Tags
linguistics, language, latin, history, tpb
Call number
470.9

Robbing the Bees: A biography of honey, the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world

by Holley Bishop
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, natural history, honey, insects, honeybees, beekeeping, apiculture, tpb
Call number
638.16

The Riddle of the Compass: The invention that changed the world

by Amir D. Aczel
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, navigation, tpb
Call number
912.0284

The Story of French

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Paperback, 2006
Tags
language, history, french language, history of french, tpb
Call number
440.9

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ancient history, ancient greece, persia, tpb
Call number
935.05

Salt : a world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, food, food history, salt, tpb, can't find our copy
Call number
553.63209

One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark

by Colin G. Calloway
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, native american history, tpb
Series
History of the American West (2003)
Call number
978.01

The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art

by The Guerrilla Girls
Paperback, 1998
Tags
art, history, art history, nonfiction, ftppl, tpb
Call number
704/.042

1421: The year China discovered America

by Gavin Menzies
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, history, china, dubious, tpb
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
910.95109024

Who Hates Whom: Well-armed fanatics, intractable conflicts, and various things blowing up: A woefully incomplete guide

by Bob Harris
Paperback, 2007
Tags
jane's, history, world history, politics, nonfiction, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
303.6

Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon

by James Sullivan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
jane's, history, nonfiction, unread, tpb, can't find our copy
Collection
Jane's
Call number
687.1 22

The Quest for Arthur's Britain

by Geoffrey Ashe
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, history, britain, arthurian, tpb
Call number
914.2/03/1

1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, americas, native american history, precolumbian, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
970.01/1 22

The Cartoon History of the Modern World

by Larry Gonick
Paperback, 2007
Tags
cartoon history, 04, history, nonfiction, graphic novel, world history, tpb
Series
The Cartoon History of the Modern World (1), The Cartoon History of the Universe (4)
Call number
909.0802/07 22

The Keys of Egypt: The obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs

by Lesley Adkins
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, archaeology, language, decipherment, egypt, hieroglyphs, champollion, tpb
Call number
493.111

Spice: The history of a temptation

by Jack Turner
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, food, food history, spices, tpb
Call number
641.338309

It's not about the tapas: A Spanish adventure on two wheels

by Polly Evans
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, travel, history, spain, tpb
Call number
914.60483

House of Rain: Tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, history, archaeology, southwest, anasazi, tpb
Call number
978.98201

Tilt: A skewed history of the Tower of Pisa

by Nicholas Shrady
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, italy, architecture, tpb
Call number
945.55
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