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History and uncertain future of handwriting
Anne Trubek · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany
Charlotte R. Bonelli · Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family... |
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Famous Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys
Robert Weller · Robert Weller/Crossed Anchors
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
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This book contains the history, manifest, salvage and recoveries of six major well known shipwrecks in the Florida keys. Four of the shipwrecks are 1733 Spanish treasure galleons, one is a British warship that sank in 1695, and the last is an American warship that sank in 1822. Each shipwreck... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
Ruth Goodman · Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From an historian who advised on the BBC's Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England.On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 704
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Aram Goudsouzian · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March... |
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer · Bloomsbury Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwells army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers... |
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
Zephyr Teachout · Harvard Univ Press
Pages: 376
Format: Audiobook
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel... |
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Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
Cathy Salustri · University Press of Florida
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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"A handy road companion for any tourist, newcomer, or longtime Floridian who wants to get off the beaten path and travel back in time." - Bobby Braddock, Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter "In staccato bursts of frenzy and passion, Salustri has written a modern love... |
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