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Notable American Indians: Indiana & Adjacent States
Alan J McPherson · AuthorHouse
Pages: 231
Format: Print book |
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Due primarily to a lack of accurate data, little has been written regarding the life histories of individual American Indians. Biographical Indian sketches that have been published are about a few outstanding individuals, mainly leaders in warfare, such as Tecumseh, Weyapiersenwah or Blue... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 613
Format: Hardcover |
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover |
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers (The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, among 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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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion.
Franklin... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book |
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this... |
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Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang
Max Décharné · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang -- from highwaymen to hip-hop -- is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture,... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Pages: 382
Format: Print book |
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park
Don Lago · University of Nevada Press,
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived there, the canyon was home, full of sacred meanings. For the first European settlers to see it, the canyon drove them to great exploration adventures and Wild West dreams of wealth. The canyon... |
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
Kari Herbert · Chronicle
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks,... |
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Folktales and Fairy Tales
Mojca RamsÌŒak · Greenwood
Pages: 1590
Format: Article |
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Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television,... |
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book |
The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day.
In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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