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The rest I will kill : William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave

Brian McGinty · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring -- and long-forgotten -- heroes of the Civil War.

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps...
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Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History

Richard Snow · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" (The New York Times Book Review) , the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power.

No single sea battle has had more...
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Jack Lynch · Bloomsbury
Pages: 453
Format: Print book

"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line...
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

Laura Secor · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day.

In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been...
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