 |
| |
New Titles - History
New title highlights is brought to you by New Book Alerts. If you would like to see all new titles for this category, click here |
|
|
Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
Richard Campanella - LSU Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage problem," renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Ava Chin - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America* A Good Morning America, TIME, Book Riot, and Kirkus Most-Anticipated Book * . As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Chad L. Williams - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I -- and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
