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Our Maryland Heritage, Book 7: The Soper Family
W N Hurley · Heritage Books
Pages: 179
Format: Print book |
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The 1870 census was the first periodic population enumeration to identify all African Americans who lived in Louisiana and in other former slave-holding states by their full names. The census also provides information about age, sex, color, occupation and place of birth. This book omits... |
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Daniel Oppenheimer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.
In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major... |
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback |
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Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansThe American Empire ProjectWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial DistinctionAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre... |
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
Claudia Roth Pierpont · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 310
Format: Print book |
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted... |
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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War
Lukasz Kamienski · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance... |
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Hitler Youth: The Hitlerjugend in War and Peace 1933-1945
Brenda Ralph Lewis · Amber Books Ltd
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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Whoever has the youth has the future. My teaching will be hard. Weakness will be knocked out of them. A violently active, dominating, brutal youth - that is what I am after.- Adolf Hitler Between 1933 and 1945, the majority of Germany's children were members of the Hitler Youth, the junior... |
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Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
Hugh Bicheno · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a dynamic two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses.England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos.The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Robert G Parkinson · Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pages: 768
Format: Print book |
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When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson... |
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Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Nicholas Blanford · Random House
Format: Print book |
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Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring... |
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