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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Nick Bunker · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic... |
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America 1900: The Turning Point (American Experience)
Judy Crichton · Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The story of this one remarkable year will air as a three-hour documentary on The American Experience in November 1998. In January 1, 1900, as Americans tried to divine the future of the twentieth century, what no one could foresee was that the issues they were dealing with were much the same... |
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Kostya Kennedy · Sports Illustrated
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2011 CASEY Award from Spitball MagazineSeventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee... |
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Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower
Barbara W. Tuchman · Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly... |
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Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Anthony Pagden · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.Worlds At War begins in the ancient... |
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Ohio in Historic Postcards: Self-Potrait of a State
H Roger Grant · The Kent State University Press
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
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For a century Americans have been purchasing picture postcards. Ohio in Historic Postcards presents 208 examples of postcards from early twentieth-century Ohio and places them in their historical context. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, the first picture postcards... |
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, she was seduced by two kings and was an intimate player in one of historys most gripping dramas. Yet much of what we know about Mary Boleyn has been fostered through garbled gossip, romantic fiction, and the misconceptions repeated by historians. Now, in her latest... |
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient... |
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
Terry Mort · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In a powerful evocation of the spirit and drama of the American West, the harrowing story of the feud that ignited the Apache Wars. In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols... |
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Hiroshima
John Hersey · Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
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Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. With what Bruce Bliven called "the simplicity of genius," John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's... |
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