History Buffs
Sometimes there’s no amount of fiction that can compete with the drama and majesty of human history. These are great books about many historical topics.
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Lakota America: a New History of Indigenous Power
by Pekka Hämäläinen
This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century.
View on CountyCatFading Ads of Milwaukee
by Adam Levin
Join Milwaukee native and ghost sign hunter Adam Levin as he explores the national brands and local shops of the Cream City's past.
View on CountyCatHonorable Exit
by Thurston Clarke
A deeply moving history of a little known finest hour, when a few brave Americans risked all to save our Vietnamese allies at the end of the war.
View on CountyCatStories From the Wreckage: a Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks
by John Odin Jensen
Great Lakes shipwrecks tell a tale of how maritime processes shaped the Upper Midwest during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
View on CountyCatArabs: a 3,000-year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history.
View on CountyCatDamn the Old Tinderbox!
by Matthew J Prigge
Milwaukee's palace of the West and the fire that defined an era.
View on CountyCatThe Golden Rhinoceros
by François-Xavier Fauvelle
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa.
View on CountyCatCuba Libre!
by Tony Perrottet
Chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising.
View on CountyCatThe War Before the War
by Andrew Delbanco
Fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
View on CountyCatThe British in India: a Social History of the Raj
by David Gilmour
Explore the lives of the British in India from the seventeenth century to Independence.
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