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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
PATRICK PARR · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious 19-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend seminary up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Steven J Zipperstein · Liveright
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian... |
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
David Pilgrim · PM Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that undergird them. It features images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM · Random House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
Patrick J Charles · Prometheus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study... |
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Ethan J Kytle · The New Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina - the heart of Dixie A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville,... |
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