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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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Women in the Great War
Stephen Wynn · Pen and Sword
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theaters of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women... |
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Nicola Tallis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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A significant retelling of the often-misunderstood tale of Lady Jane Grey's journey through her trial and execution -- recalling the dangerous plots and web of deadly intrigue in which she became involuntarily tangled, and which ultimately led to a catastrophic conclusion. "Good people,... |
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Jonas Salk: A Life
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs · Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake... |
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Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square
Alfred Pommer · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Created by Samuel Ruggles as a haven for wealthy New Yorkers, both Gramercy Park and Union Square have been among Manhattans most desirable neighborhoods for more than 150 years. From writers and artists to powerful politicians, illustrious figures like O. Henry, Andy Warhol, Samuel Tilden... |
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Lucy Inglis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An intelligent and authoritative history of opium -- a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 744
Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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Discovering Vintage New Orleans: A Guide to the City's Timeless Shops, Bars, Hotels & More
Bonnye Stuart · Globe Pequot Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Discovering Vintage New Orleans is a guide to all of the city's timeless classic spots that take you back in time. The book spotlights the charming stories that tell you what each place is like now and how it got that way. It includes indexes that let you choose the places you want... |
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British... |
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Howard B Means · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,... |
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Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
STEPHEN BRUMWELL · Yale University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining... |
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Acid West: Essays
JOSHUA WHEELER · MCD x FSG Originals
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first... |
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Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
Jay D Aronson · Harvard University Press
Pages: 318
Format: Print book
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After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human... |
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