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Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970
Sarah Archer · W W Norton
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60sMidcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel,... |
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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Blood royal : a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris
Eric Jager · Little
Format: Book
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On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost... |
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Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby · The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Pages: 229
Format: Print book
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Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively... |
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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
Susan Doran · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers - Susan Doran provides a vivid... |
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As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
Stephen L Moore · CALIBER
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II - As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within... |
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The Last Laker, FInding a Wreck Lost in the Great Lakes' Deadliest Storm
Frederick Stonehouse · Lake Superior Port Cities Inc
Format: Print book
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In the storm known as the White Hurricane caused the greatest loss of life and vessels on the Great Lakes to date The SS Henry B Smith sank into Lake Superior without a trace and thus spent decades as a veritable Holy Grail for wreck divers Stonehouse illuminates that terrible storm the mysterious... |
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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine.... |
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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West
John Boessenecker · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains... |
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Will Hunt · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet--for fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work.Will Hunt is an urban adventurer... |
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Smithsonian: History of the World Map by Map
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race.Custom regional and global maps present the history of the world in action, charting how events traced patterns on land and ocean--patterns of exploration,... |
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The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
DAVID I KERTZER · RANDOM HOUSE
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini takes on a pivotal, untold story: the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe. Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848,... |
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Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
Robert Twigger · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind’s tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through... |
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