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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
Jon Grinspan - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared... |
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The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry
Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Diana's Boys revealed the iron-strong bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
SARAH GRISTWOOD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period.Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth... |
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The N-Word in Music: An American History
Todd M Mealy - McFarland
Format: Hardcover
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The minstrelsy play, song, and dance "Jump, Jim Crow" did more than enable blackface performers to spread racist stereotypes about Black Americans. This widespread antebellum-era cultural phenomenon was instrumental in normalizing the N-word across several aspects of American... |
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
Ken Ellingwood - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist... |
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Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America
Mary P. Ryan - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country's formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards... |
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African Europeans: An Untold History
Olivette Otele
Format: Hardcover
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Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman... |
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Amrica: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Robert Goodwin - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage... |
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