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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred about 200-250 Texans who had been trapped in a tiny... |
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Life Between the Levees: America's Riverboat Pilots
Melody Golding · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Life Between the Levees is a chronicle of first-person reflections and folklore from pilots who have dedicated their lives to the river. The stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves, and the volume is full of drama, suspense, and a way of life a "landlubber" could... |
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen · GoodKnight Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered... |
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Jessie Morgan-Owens · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams -- a slave girl who looked "white" -- whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers.
Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world... |
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Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General
Ronald D. Smith
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An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation's history - inc |
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Ariana: The Biography
Danny White · Michael O'Mara
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Ariana Grande captured the hearts of many fans with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than two weeks after a terrorist killed 22 people at her Manchester show, the petite princess stood tall at her tribute concert that united a shaken nation. But who is Ariana Grande? This candid book... |
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A Queer History of the United States
Michael Bronski · Beacon Press
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback
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Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a "who's who" of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural... |
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The Stonewall Reader
New York Public Library · Penguin Classics
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which... |
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