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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City
Antero Pietila · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: eBook
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Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers.... |
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The American Revolution: A World War
David Allison · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple battle... |
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking,... |
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Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Stephan Talty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese... |
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Charlie Company's Journey Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Andrew Wiest · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The Boys of '67 and the War They Left BehindThe human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp--the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations.... |
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A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age
Daniel Schönpflug · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible -- told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoilNovember 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
James PP Horn · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course... |
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A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
Jay Sexton · Basic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises--not unlike those of the present day--have determined our nation's course from the startIn A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress,... |
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