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BOOK GIFT IDEAS FOR HISTORY BUFFS [SHOWING SLIDE 2 OF 10]

2013 was a great year for history books; for the loved one on your list who’d rather be deep in the narrative of an earlier age, check out this week’s list of good gift ideas for history buffs.

OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR by Richard R. Beeman

OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR: THE FORGING OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1774-1776

by Richard R. Beeman

"A welcome addition to a rich, indispensable field of scholarly study."

To create this lively study of the main players of the two Continental Congresses, Beeman (History/Univ. of Pennsylvania) draws on his wealth of research from his previous, award-winning works, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (2009) and Patrick Henry (1974). Read full book review >

VANISHED by Wil S. Hylton

OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR by Richard R. Beeman

JFK'S LAST HUNDRED DAYS by Thurston Clarke

THE BULLY PULPIT by Doris Kearns Goodwin

YEAR ZERO by Ian Buruma

THE RED MAN'S BONES by Benita Eisler

A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN THIRTY-SIX POSTAGE STAMPS by Chris West

THE BROTHERS by Stephen Kinzer

THE UNDIVIDED PAST by David Cannadine

1941 by Slavko Goldstein

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BEST BOOKS OF 2013 FOR VICARIOUS EXPERIENCES YOU'LL NEVER FORGET

WAVE by Sonali Deraniyagala

FACING THE WAVE by Gretel Ehrlich

SEX AND THE CITADEL by Shereen El Feki

THE BOOK OF MY LIVES by Aleksandar Hemon

JAPAN 1941 by Eri Hotta

FRESH OFF THE BOAT by Eddie Huang

OUTRAGEOUS NONFICTION STORIES YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE IF THEY WERE NOVELS

SAVAGE HARVEST by Carl Hoffman

THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann

MOTHER OF GOD by Paul Rosolie

SHE LEFT ME THE GUN by Emma Brockes

THE MAD SCULPTOR by Harold Schechter

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU by Domenica Ruta