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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
Patrick Rael · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick... |
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The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff · Bancroft Press
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover |
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Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin... |
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The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Andrew Lipman · Yale University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover |
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Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became... |
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Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best
Susan E Eaton · The New Press, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah,... |
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
Ian W. Toll · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 656
Format: Print book |
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New York Times Bestseller The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island.This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War -- the period between mid-1942... |
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
Christopher Oldstone-Moore · The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Beards - they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today... |
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Alistair Horne · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait... |
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Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity's First Thousand Years
William J Bennett · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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Full of larger-than-life characters, stunning acts of bravery, and heart-rending sacrifice, Tried by Fire narrates the rise and expansion of Christianity from an obscure regional sect to the established faith of the world's greatest empire with influence extending from India to Ireland,... |
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." - Antonia FraserFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed... |
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Ioan Grillo · Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint... |
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Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Philip T. Hoffman · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?,... |
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Adam Makos · Ballantine
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's "forgotten war" in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign... |
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters
Giles Milton · Picador Usa, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles MiltonThe first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary... |
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The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
William McCants · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more... |
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The Last of the President's Men
Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 291
Format: Print book |
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"An intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office." - The Washington Post Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men.Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon... |
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