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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie,... |
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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 more... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light.... |
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Campaigning for President in America, 1788-2016
Scott J Hammond · Greenwood
Pages: 954
Format: Print book
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What does it take to get elected president of the United States -- "leader of the free world"? This book gives readers insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through... |
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua Levine · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
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THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY, AND MARK RYLANCEThe Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
William Hardy McNeill · Berkshire Group
Pages: 2995
Format: Book
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Over the past five years, the ,Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History has become the standard reference for world history teaching across the United States. Berkshire's ongoing work with the original group of authors and with dozens of world history teachers (who embraced not only the Encyclopedia... |
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN · Penguin Press
Pages: 1154
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
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It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Jerri Bell; Tracy Crow · Potomac Books, Inc
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words - from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. Serving with the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier,... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 238
Format: Print book
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A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . · Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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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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