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Rose Kennedy's Family Album: From the Fitzgerald Kennedy Private Collection, 1878-1946
Caroline Kennedy · Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A selection of more than 300 images--including family letters, personal ephemera, and captivating photographs--collected by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, many never seen before, featuring the beloved and revered Kennedy family: This remarkable history dates from 1878 through 1946--up to the aftermath... |
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
D Stevenson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows... |
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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
Owen Matthews · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Russian Empire once extended deep into America in 1818 Russias furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov - diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia... |
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The History of Human Space Flight
TED SPITZMILLER · UNIV PR OF FLORIDA
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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"A fascinating human saga of dedication, competition, sacrifice, and achievement." - Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory "An ambitious and thorough history, extending back to the earliest risk takers and innovators who laid the groundwork for the astronauts... |
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Ian Mortimer · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth IFrom the author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside... |
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half... |
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When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top
Larry Kane · Running Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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This is the story of the Beatles’ harrowing rise to fame: focusing on that seven-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers to early 1964, when the Fab Four made their momentous first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. From the boys’ humble beginnings in Liverpool,... |
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
Jesse Walker · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Jesse Walkers The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.The fear of intrigue and subversion doesnt exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part of our national... |
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Inside the White House: Stories From the World's Most Famous Residence
Noel Grove · National Geographic
Pages: 351
Format: Hardcover
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In collaboration with the White House Historical Association, National Geographic presents this authoritative overview of America's first home featuring never-before published stories and photographs. Organized by theme, discover what makes the White House tick--from its beginnings to the modern... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH · Random House
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more than... |
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A Working People: A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation
Steven A Reich · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America's black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African Americans have faced a unique... |
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