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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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A Chronology of Art
Iain Zaczek · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movementsMost surveys of the history of art are divided into historic periods, artistic schools, and movements. In reality, movements and artists'... |
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Kentucky Genealogical Records & Abstracts, Volume 1: 1781-1839
Sherida K Eddlemon · Heritage Books
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback
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Ms. Eddlemon makes available a diverse array of sources including tax and property lists, marriage registers, church and cemetery records, wills and estates, mortality schedules, Negro censuses, military pensions and officer lists. The table of contents i |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true... |
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Local History Reference Collections for Public Libraries
Kathy Marquis · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Print book
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A collection of local history materials is useful to a wide variety of library users, from genealogists and family historians, to patrons researching the history of their home or church, and local students searching for class project resources. But the idea of creating one can feel intimidating--conjuring... |
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell · Icon Books
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
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When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished... |
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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
David Pilling · The Penguin Press, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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"[A]n excellent book..." --The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister... |
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Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape
FRANCIS PRYOR · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated, evocative narrative of the nature and history of Stonehenge that places the enigmatic stone megaliths in a wider cultural context. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure.... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 681
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory · Amistad
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
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NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty... |
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Some South Carolina County Records
Brent Holcomb · Southern Historical Pr
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"We have taken the bulk of South Carolina material appearing in the 'Georgia Genealogical Magazine' and compiled it into book form as found herein"--Pref.In the early 1800s, Marion District represented what is now Marion, Dillon and part of Florence counties. In the 1850s, Pickens... |
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