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American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
John Beckman · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America's unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth... |
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Carlos M N Eire · Yale University Press
Pages: 928
Format: Print book
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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention... |
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Jonathan Dimbleby · Oxford University Press, 2016.
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill's fears were well-placed-the casualty rate in the Atlantic was higher than in any other theater of the entire... |
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Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Andrew Schocket · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source... |
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Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
Paul Jankowski · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication... |
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Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Margaret Lazarus Dean · Graywolf Press
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake... |
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Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Jacqueline Riding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James... |
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Boston's Massacre
Eric Hinderaker · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American... |
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Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics
Erin McHugh · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present day. Just in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes,... |
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The Civilian Lives of U.S. Veterans
Louis Hicks · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 824
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In this book, 50 experts study the lives of U.S. veterans at work, at home, and in American society as they navigate issues regarding health, gender, public service, substance abuse, and homelessness.* Considers the changing demographics of U.S. veterans as compared to previous generations... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi · Nation Books
Pages: 582
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 - The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE... |
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