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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro · Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World
Maurice Walsh · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 525
Format: Print book
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"Sets Ireland's post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect." -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding... |
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Randall Fuller · Viking
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race"A lively and informative history." - The New York Times Book ReviewThroughout its history America has been torn in two by debates... |
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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's... |
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Peter Fritzsche · Basic Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An Iron... |
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments... |
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie,... |
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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK · Picador
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Stephanie Elizondo Griest · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel... |
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
Roland Philipps · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The first full biography of one of the twentieth century's most notorious spies.Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man's betrayal has never... |
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Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History
Roland Miller · University of New Mexico Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "abandoned in place" indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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