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Delaware Bible Records, Volume 1
Donald Odell Virdin · Heritage Books
Pages: 1
Format: Book
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These Bibles date mainly from the late 1700's through the early 1900's, and frequently cover three or more generations. In addition to the usual marriage, birth, and death information, newspaper clippings, hand-written notes attached to or written on the pages, and personal letters... |
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This Day in Presidential History
PAUL BRANDUS · Bernan Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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For reference librarians, journalists, social media managers, history buffs, and more, a treasure trove of information about the US presidency for each day of the year from the popular, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus. The Atlantic calls Brandus "one of the top Washington... |
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The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival
Diana Darke · Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire--despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria and civil war in Lebanon, to his arrival in England in the 1970s,... |
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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Louis S. Warren · Basic Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling... |
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade
Henry Finder · Random House
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century - including pieces by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike - alongside... |
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Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
Garsoc O'Toole · Little A
Pages: 383
Format: Hardcover
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How one man corrected hundreds of modern misquotations infecting the Internet, our books, and our minds.Everywhere you look, you'll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit · National Geographic
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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America's Sailors in the Great War: Seas, Skies, and Submarines
Lisle A Rose · University of Missouri
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I. When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America's sailors were immediately forced to engage in the utterly new realm of anti-submarine warfare waged on, below and above the seas... |
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Therese Oneill · Little
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright · Henry Holt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241
John Haywood · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 |
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