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Tesla Vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World
Nigel Cawthorne - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book
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Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made... |
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow... |
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Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
Stephen V. Ash - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the months that followed. The city's population exploded, its economy was deranged, and its government... |
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
Laura Sook Duncombe - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their... |
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Night: A Memoir
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience of the world."... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
Nancy Isenberg - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy.Until now, no one has properly dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth (father and son) presidents. John and John... |
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
JOYCE LEE MALCOM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict... |
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The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come
Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm - Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward first-hand accounts including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer - Bantam
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country... |
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitts The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret."A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally... |
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
Jessica B Harris - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era - the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies,... |
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The Aeronauts: Travels in the Air
James Glaisher - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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The True Story Behind the Major Motion Picture - and one of the greatest daredevil stories in the history of aviation. In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before. A pioneer of weather forecasting and of photography,... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland
Sydney Nathans - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved... |
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe... |
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The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
Isobel Charman - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Set in the heart of swirling, Dickensian London, the wondrous history of a unique institution and the incredible characters -- human and animal -- that populated it. The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping audacity in the Age of Empire. It is the story of diplomats,... |
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Bridges Over the Delaware River: A History of Crossings
Frank T. Dale - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Frank T. Dale, a freelance writer and local historian, is the author of Delaware Diaries: Episodes in the Life of a River (Rutgers). His work has garnered awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists, the Working Press Association, and the New Jersey Historical Commission. |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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Napoleon: A Life
Adam Zamoyski - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed... |
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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
Richard Branson - Portfolio; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the worlds ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.. Richard Bransons Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful... |
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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Waldo H Heinrichs - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun,... |
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Lucy Inglis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intelligent and authoritative history of opium -- a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer... |
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The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time
Walter Boyne - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation's most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft - planes like the elliptical-winged... |
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World War II Map by Map
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Trace the epic history of World War 2 across the globe with more than 100 detailed maps.In this stunning visual history book, custom maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each map is rich... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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The History Book
Dk Publishing. - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance,... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
ULYSSES S GRANT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant's Memoirs yet published.One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's... |
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Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials: The Real War of the Worlds
Frank Joseph - Bear & Company
Format: Paperback
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The first, comprehensive military history of armed confrontations between humans and extraterrestrials * Includes documentation of incidents from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East * Reveals the U.S.... |
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Dadland
Keggie Carew - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. For most of her adult life, Keggie was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history, but when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs... |
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Gladiators: Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Christopher Epplett - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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A history of gladiators - with an added bite!It's hard for modern readers to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale... |
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly - Bloomsbury Publishing
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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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
REBECCA TRAISTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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Undersea Warriors: The Untold History of the Royal Navys Secret Service
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible inside story of the Cold War beneath the waves, pitting British and NATOs attack submarines against the Soviets.. Undersea Warrior: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes. This will follow the careers of four daring British... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insiders view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
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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Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation
J D Dickey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian sheds new light on Sherman's epic "March to the Sea," especially the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians who would change the nation for the better. America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor - Viking
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
Francine Klagsbrun - Schocken
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time. Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born... |
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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
Eugene L Meyer - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander... |
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
David Head - University of Georgia Press
Format: Hardcover
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Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their... |
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
David F Labaree - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Read the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's... |
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Why The Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
Ben Coates - Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Format: Print book
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*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective,... |
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Marie Arana - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, American Library Association BOOKLIST s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history.Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
Edward L Widmer - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
Marianne Monson - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly... |
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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
Paula Whitacre - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
Betty Reid Soskin - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, women were looked at suspiciously... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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1776
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake... |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness
Denise Uwimana - Plough Publishing House
Format: Paperback
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A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of RebirthIn the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Amsterdam
DK TRAVEL. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksFind your corner of Amsterdam with this essential travel guide to this historic city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your case - stroll along atmospheric canals,... |
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
Lesley Hazleton - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited - and remade. Look out for Lesley Hazleton's new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, coming in February 2016. Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic... |
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The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave
William Lynch - Lushena Books
Format: Book
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It discribes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including... |
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Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine
Lawrence Goldstone - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial history of the attack submarine -- and the story of its colorful creator, John Philip Holland -- that reveals how this imaginative invention changed the face of modern warfare. From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over... |
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,... |
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Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
Nick Lloyd - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917, upwards of 500,000 men were killed or wounded, maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this... |
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Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval
HEINZ SCHILLING - OXFORD University Press
Format: Print book
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No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther.In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation... |
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham "Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."... |
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Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Victor Ripp - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell's Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition... |
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Marked for Death: A History of the First War in the Air
James Hamilton-Paterson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,... |
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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Jack Rakove - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become revolutionary by ambition, but when events in Boston... |
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The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
Guy Laron - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain... |
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1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Salim T.S. Al-Hassani - National Geographic; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback
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1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries... |
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The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
Yaakov Katz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud... |
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
Anthony Summers - HarperLuxe
Format: Large print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans - Portfolio
Format: Book
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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Hannibal
Patrick Hunt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world.... |
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C Waterhouse - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.The Land of Enterprise... |
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The Vikings: Facts and Fictions
Kirsten Wolf - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents.* Examines popular misconceptions about the Vikings*... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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The Lost City of Z
DAVID GRANN - VINTAGE
Format: Print book
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This New York Times bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, and Robert Pattinson and directed by James Gray.In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned.... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times Besteller, with a new preface from the author"This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times"This eye-opening investigation into our country's... |
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,... |
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Churchill The Young Warrior: How He Helped Win the First World War
John Harte - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill's early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars -- on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally... |
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Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
FRED KAPLAN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
Arthur Herman - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilsons entry into World War I and Lenins Bolshevik Revolution.In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation, advocate for free trade... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
Don Brown - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs - on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 - the pilots continued... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin... |
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand... |
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