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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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New Hampshire Genealogical Digest 1623-1900
Glenn C Towle · Heritage Books
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Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 333 pages; Offers valuable genealogical information. Subjects: Registers of births,... |
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Bringing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels
Andrei Netto · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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In February 2011, Andrei Netto, a reporter for O Estado de São Paulo , one of Brazil's main newspapers, traveled without permission into a region of Libya controlled by the regime, aiming to cover the first armed revolution of the Arab Spring. One of the first foreigners to reveal... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
Ivan Chistyakov · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labor camp -- long suppressed -- that will become a cornerstone of understanding the Soviet Union. Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow,... |
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The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James
James P. Muehlberger · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The True Story Behind the Legendary Outlaw Gang, a Civil War Vendetta, and the Forgotten Court Documents That Helped Seal Their FateOn a dreary December 7, 1869, two strangers entered the Daviess County Savings and Loan in Gallatin, Missouri. One of the men asked the cashier for change... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler · Liveright
Pages: 384
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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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Robert G Parkinson · Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson... |
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Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
Thomas J Ward Jr. · Oxford University Press
Pages: 189
Format: Print book
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Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural... |
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