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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw
Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides.For more than a century the life and death... |
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom
David Hackett Fischer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal... |
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
Dorothy Wickenden
Format: Hardcover
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Harriet Tubman - no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant - was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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Great British Family Names and Their History: What's in a Name?
John Moss - Pen and Sword History
Format: Hardcover
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For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our family; the events that occurred many years before we were born and the choices that were made by our forebears are our inheritance - we are the inexorable product of family history. So it is with nations. The history of Great... |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero... |
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
Tom Brokaw - Random House Audio
Format: Audio CD
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Tom Brokaw recounts the endgame of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency in real time, from his perspective in the press corps as a young White House correspondent for NBC News.The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes... |
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