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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark · Harper
Pages: 697
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship,... |
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A Genealogical Collection of Kentucky Birth and Death Records, Volume 1
Sherida K. Eddlemon · Heritage Books Inc.; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Although some Kentucky counties were recording births and deaths as early as 1851, a statewide requirement for such record-keeping was not in force until 1911. Prolific genealogical abstractor, Sherida K. Eddlemon, knows how to fill in the gaps, however. |
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Gary Krist · Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans'... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half... |
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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad
Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising... |
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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
Peggy Noonan · Twelve
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic) , her column in The Wall Street Journalis a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and always... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root... |
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A Military History of the Modern Middle East
James Brian McNabb · Praeger
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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This timely study synthesizes past history with the major military events and dynamics of the 20th- and 21st-century Middle East, helping readers understand the region's present -- and look into its future.* Presents the evolution of combat and military thought in the region from ancient... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit · National Geographic
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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