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Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Harlow G Unger · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush--fiery signer of the Declaration of Independence, prominent physician, ardent politician, zealous social reformer, passionate humanitarian, and dedicated educatorDr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers... |
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The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
Rawn James Jr. · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more... |
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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family
Nina Sankovitch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time,... |
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Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed
Salem Press. · Salem Press, Inc., a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;
Format: Print book
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Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed covers 600 noteworthy works that have endured the test of time and continue to hold the interest of general readers and literary specialists year after year. This brand-new second edition of this renowned reference work contains 100 more titles... |
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Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness
Arlene Stein · Oxford University Press
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from American... |
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Margalit Fox · Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed... |
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Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation
J D Dickey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian sheds new light on Sherman's epic "March to the Sea," especially the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians who would change the nation for the better. America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: eBook
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"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history.... |
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