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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Carrie Gibson - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British... |
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
J.D. Dickey - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Washington DC gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples a pulsing hub of political power and prowess But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen Before America became a world power in the twentieth century Washington City was an eyesore... |
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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh - Twelve
Format: Print book
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In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money,... |
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Tong wars : the untold story of vice, money, and murder in new york's chinatown.
Scott D Seligman - Viking
Format: Print book : English
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A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York's Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s.Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house... |
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern... |
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came... |
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The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories -- when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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Coyote America
Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Peter Fritzsche - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An... |
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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While F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the ferocious energy of the 1920s, as this illuminating cultural history brilliantly demonstrates. In four wordsthe capital of everythingDuke Ellington captured Manhattan during... |
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The King's Revenge Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Don Jordan - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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When Charles I was executed, his sonCharles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggestmanhunt Britain had ever seen, one that wouldspan Europe and America and wouldlast for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors... |
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From Day to Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps
Odd Nansen - Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Print book
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In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three and a half years, Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-thin pages later... |
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My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia
Donna Solecka Urbikas - The University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Print book
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Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II, as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond between mother and older... |
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political,... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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Ikes Gamble: Americas Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
Michael Doran - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956 - one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East - shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt, is Americas strongest regional ally.. In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story
Simon Wiesenthal - William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Relates the remarkable story of two Holocaust survivors who persuaded Wiesenthal not to pursue their Nazi tormentor, Werner Schultze |
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Alex Von Tunzelmann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under... |
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
Lynne Kelly - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals... |
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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
Lars Brownworth - Crux Publishing
Format: Print book
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Lars Brownworths The Normans is like a gallop through the Middle Ages on a fast warhorse. It is rare to find an author who takes on a subject so broad and so complex, while delivering a book that is both fast-paced and readable. Bill Yenne, author of Julius Caesar Lessons in Leadership... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington
Peter Snow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips - W. W. Norton & Company
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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Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Larrie D. Ferreiro - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie D. Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery,... |
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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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California comeback : how "failed state" became a model for the nation
Narda Zacchino - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown. In the most economically important state in the country and the 7th largest economy in the world a political revolution of historic importance... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists - quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans - that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created... |
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The Real Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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The world has long been captivated by the story of Peter Pan and the countless movies, plays, musicals, and books that retell the story of Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Now, in this revealing behind-the-scenes book, author Piers Dudgeon examines the fascinating and complex relationships... |
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Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion
George M. Taber - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the highly anticipated new book from the bestselling author of Judgement of Paris, George M. Taber reveals the integral role gold played in World War II, from its influence on the Nazi war machine to the ultimate triumph by the Allies and the fall of BerlinA USA Today "New and Notable"... |
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice." - The Washington Post More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost... |
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Akhil Reed Amar - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevanceAmerica's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires "to... |
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Grand River Avenue
Gail Offen - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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Grand River Avenue, or Michigan US-16 as it was ultimately designated, is one of Michigans true Blue Highwaysan original two-lane, blacktop road still serving as a direct path through roadside America. Originally a Native American trail, this ancient path has been a westbound route from... |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond... |
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Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941
Daniel Todman - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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On June 18th, 1940, invoking their "finest hour," Winston Churchill galvanized his countrymen. Poland and France had fallen. Britain was next. Churchill knew, as now did millions of his countrymen, that their island nation alone faced Nazi Germany, and that soon it would be at the center... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly,... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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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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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
Charles Fountain - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein.... |
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Therese Oneill - Little
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't... |
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X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?
Kathy Garver - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This enlightening book is the go-to guide for fans for biographical information, rare photos, and interesting trivia about their favorite child stars, shows, series, networks, and the times that defined the shows. Spanning forty years of television history, this book details both the success... |
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Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
Nathan Stoltzfus - Yale University Press 2016.
Format: Print book
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History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing... |
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
Anne Frank - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait... |
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Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I: Introduction and A-C
Frederic Gomes Cassidy - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This series captures the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered... |
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Thomas J. Sugrue - Princeton University Press; New Preface edition
Format: Paperback
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.... |
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post "Farida Khalaf's story is harrowing but crucial - especially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does." - Glamour "As gripping as it is appalling ... a compelling testament to the suffering... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
Michael Reid - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated,... |
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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
Janine di Giovanni - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Book
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Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic. Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience... |
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Sustainability: A History
Jeremy L. Caradonna - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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The word is nearly ubiquitous at the grocery store we shop for sustainable foods that were produced from sustainable agriculture groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout sustainable development as a strategy for local and global... |
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The Histories
Herodotus - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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One of Western history's greatest books springs to life in Tom Holland's vibrant new translation Herodotus of Halicarnassus - who was hailed by Cicero as "the father of history" - wrote his histories around 440 BC. It is the earliest surviving work of nonfiction and a thrilling... |
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1956: The World in Revolt
Simon Hall - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Vibrantly and perceptively told, this is the story of one remarkable year -- a vivid history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
Malcolm Nance - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's... |
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The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art
Jans Ondaatje Rolls - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Sheds light on the vivid personalities, ideas, and achievements of the Bloomsbury Group from a unique culinary perspective Throwing aside the stifling patriarchy of late Victorian Britain, the Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative, and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communications,... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Baltimore County Marriage Evidences and Family Relationships, 1659-1800
Robert W. Barnes - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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This book lists information on over 10,000 marriages from indirect sources, such as probate, land, court, guardian, and apprenticeship records, as well as church vestry books. Arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom (in most cases) , the entries provide the names of the bride... |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I
Richard Ned Lebow - Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. One hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Amy Shira Teitel - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World... |
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Simon Winder - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,... |
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Matthew Karp - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main... |
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Once Upon a Playground: A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975
Brenda Biondo - University Press of New England
Format: Book
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Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides.Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these... |
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
Laurence Gonzales - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet. As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Charles R Morris - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred generations of Americans. A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid and fast-paced account... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more... |
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
Tilar J. Mazzeo - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Htel on Place Vendme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Htel Ritz - a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance - from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
Arthur I Miller - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science. In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations -- a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Sears Morgan - Norton
Format: Print book
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"Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable." -- New York Times Book Review In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring... |
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Judith Flanders - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than... |
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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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Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
Erika Lee - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The majority of newcomers came from China and Japan, but there were also immigrants from India, the Philippines, Korea,... |
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal... |
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarcerationand How to Achieve Real Reform
John F Pfaff - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformThe United States, home to about 5 percent of the world's population, holds nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. How did we get to this point?In Locked... |
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Library catalog
Daughters of the American Revolution - DAR
Format: Paperback
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Book by Daughters of the American Revolution |
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
Heather Ann Thompson - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice - including information never released to the public - published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On... |
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Jerry Brotton - Viking
Format: Print book
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The gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's bold alliance with the Ottoman sultan by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsPublished in the UK as This Orient IsleLong before the Barbary Pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English... |
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Willow Run
Randy Hotton - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In May 1940, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 50,000 military airplanes. He then drafted the president of General Motors, William Knudsen, to mobilize industry in the United States. The automotive companies were called upon to produce a massive fleet of bombers,... |
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this... |
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Tim Butcher - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo... |
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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
Robert Ferguson - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC) .Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system... |
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The People of Ireland, 1600-1699: Part One
Kit Dobson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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This work draws on primary sources, such as published government records, together with references found in Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch archives. The single most important source used in this work are the many volumes of the published Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland.... |
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Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies
Michael Useem - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained the unique practices developed by the Japanese to bring that country's economy out of the ashes.... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John... |
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Operation Sea Lion
Leo McKinstry - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive -- a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot - Broadside
Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston - Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, The Mirror Test asks that we as a nation look in the mirror and address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working... |
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