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Be it narratives of local heroes, tragic losses, collections of homegrown recipes, historic mysteries and everything in between, history press books act as valued touchstones for community identity. Dec 05, 2019 an electronic book or ebook as they are universally known is a textbased publication in digital form. My vote for a history that is both detailed and written at the level of the general reader would be the three volume series. What is the most unbiased book on american history. Scholars who write about history are called historians.