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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Catton
Bruce Catton - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Library of America restores to print a masterpiece of Civil War history in a deluxe collector's editionBruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy is a landmark of historical story-telling, one of the most popular and influential works ever written about the Civil War. And yet for decades... |
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Symbols in Art: Art Essentials
Matthew Wilson - Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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Thoroughly user-friendly and covering a broad historical sweep, this book is a reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history.Iconography, or the study of symbols -- be they animals, artifacts, plants, geometric shapes, or gestures -- is an essential... |
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1876: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills
Steve Wiegand - ?Bancroft Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces -- or re-introduces -- us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws such as the Younger and James Brothers, as well as larger-than-life figures such as Buffalo... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most... |
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River of Ink: Literature, History, Art
Thomas Christensen - Counterpoint; ILL edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Christensen’s previous title 1616: The World in Motion looked at a single year in the age of early maritime globalism--PW gave it a starred review, calling it “a stunning overview of the nascent modern world.” By contrast his new gorgeously illustrated River of Ink ranges... |
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Forgotten Women: The Scientists
Zing Tsjeng - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, haveformed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. From leaders and scientists to artists... |
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
Francesca Cartier Brickell - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of the family behind Cartier, and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon--as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.The Cartiers is the revealing tale... |
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