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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand · Oxford University Press
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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A Brief History of Tremont
W Dennis Keating · The History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book
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For almost two centuries, the historic Tremont neighborhood has rested on a bluff overlooking Clevelands industrial valley. The sleepy farming community was transformed in 1867, when Cleveland annexed it. Factories attracted thousands of emigrants from Europe, and industrialization gave... |
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Forgotten Fifteenth: The Daring Airmen Who Crippled Hitler's War Machine
Barrett Tillman · Regnery History; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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November 1943 - May 1945 - The U.S. Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight enjoyed by the Eighth Air Force... |
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Dan Hampton · William Morrow
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World... |
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Ancient Egypt in 101 Questions and Answers
Thomas Schneider · Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems strangely familiar to us: exhibitions of ancient art and archaeological discoveries in the desert sands continue to generate interest and amazement, while Egyptian motifs appear in architecture, literature, artworks,... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Hell or Richmond
Ralph Peters · Forge Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the American Library Association's 2014 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military Fiction.Between May 5 and June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies suffered 88,000 casualties. Twenty-nine thousand were killed, wounded or captured in the first two days of combat.... |
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Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
M. Andrew Holowchak · Prometheus Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jeffersons paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children, a conclusion... |
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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
John N. Maclean · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high-tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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