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The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
Jim Auchmutey - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him? Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkampers life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly... |
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The American Revolution: A Visual History
Dk. - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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The American Revolution will transport you back in time and onto the frontlines. This complete overview of the war brings all the action to life, from the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party to the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris.Beginning with the first... |
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Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Publishing Group
Format: eBook
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From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional... |
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The Smartest Book in the World: A Lexicon of Literacy, A Rancorous Reportage, A Concise Curriculum of Cool
Greg Proops - Touchstone; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the brazen, bold, and beloved comic and podcast star Greg Proops comes an electrifying, thought-provoking, and unrelenting collection of rapid-fire references, historical name-checking, Satchel Paige bon mots, and genuine wisdom. Greg Proops is an internationally renowned comedian,... |
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Christina Snyder - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they went.... |
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Egyptian Magic: A history of ancient Egyptian magical practices including amulets, names, spells, enchantments, figures, formulae, supernatural ceremonies, and words of power
E A Wallis Budge, Sir - Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the riveting impact of magic on ancient Egyptian civilization, from birth, to love and marriage, to the rituals of death and the afterlife!First published in 1899, Egyptian Magic is a classic work of one of the most prolific Victorian Egyptologists, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge... |
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41: Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Michael Nelson - Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation... |
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Conquerors : how Portugal forged the first global empire
Roger Crowley - Random House
Format: Print book
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In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers - a tactical advantage no other... |
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
Ian W. Toll - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island.This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War -- the period between mid-1942... |
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Tom Jackson - Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The refrigerator may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of twentieth-century science--lifesaver, food preserver, social liberator. Part historical narrative, part scientific decoder, Chilled looks at early efforts to harness the cold at the ice pits of Persia (Iranians... |
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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By the publisher of the prestigious Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 1920–21 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, “less is more.” This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
DIANE ACKERMAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.In 1939 Poland, Antonina abiski (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan abiski (Johan Heldenbergh) , have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under... |
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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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Buster: The Military Dog Who Saved a Thousand Lives
Will Barrow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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"With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would... |
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Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England
Michael K. Jones - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and authoritative reinterpretation of the Battle of Bosworth Field, where the Wars of the Roses ended and the Tudor dynasty began. On August 22, 1485, at Bosworth Field, Richard III fell, the Wars of the Roses ended, and the Tudor dynasty began. The clash is so significant because... |
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The Campaign of Waterloo: The Classic Account of Napoleon's Last Battles
John Fortescue - Frontline Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Campaign of Waterloo is the complete account of the climatic campaign and battle of the Napoleonic Wars abstracted from Sir John Fortescue's monumental A History of the British Army.Issued as an independent volume, The Campaign of Waterloo chronicles the events from Napoleon's... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
W. David Marx - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look - known as ametora, or "American traditional"... |
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Policewomen Who Made History: Breaking through the Ranks
Robert L. Snow - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning with a history of women in police work, Snow traces their rise through the ranks, focusing first on the first women to be given a patrol assignment. In their own words, policewomen describe the challenges and advantages of being a woman on the force, and demonstrate the perseverance... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II
Niall Barr - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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An authoritative and dramatic behind-the-scenes history of 'the Atlantic Alliance' during World War II. The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull... |
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1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
Andrew Grant Jackson - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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During twelve unforgettable months in the middle of the turbulent Sixties, America saw the rise of innovative new sounds that would change popular music as we knew it. In 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, music historian Andrew Grant Jackson (Still the Greatest: The Essential... |
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The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
Gil Troy - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the charismatic and flawed baby boomer president,... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Mariner Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Heartwarming. New York Times Whether or not youre a book lover, youll be moved. Entertainment Weekly A readable, accessible addition to World War II literature and a book that will be enjoyed by lovers of books about books. Boston Globe Four stars out of four... |
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The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites
Libby O'Connell - Sourcebooks; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Like many miniencyclopedias, this one is studded with often intriguing facts." -- KirkusFrom the chief historian at HISTORY comes a rich chronicle of the evolution of American cuisine and culture, from before Columbus's arrival to today.Did you know that the first graham... |
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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AP U.S. history 2016
Daniel Murphy; Stephen Armstrong - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"3 practice exams. Bonus AP Planner app with extra practice questions"--Front cover.
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Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Seymour Morris Jr. - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,... |
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Linda Hervieux - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.In the early hours of June 6, 1944,... |
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George Washington: The Wonder of the Age
John H Rhodehamel - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A much-needed concise biography of America's first president As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation's... |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the disaster.On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English... |
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Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Niall Ferguson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papersNo American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience
Juan Williams - AARP/Sterling
Format: Print book
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"More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to "transforming moments" when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things. David Dinkins,... |
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
Linda Schele - William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Piecing together the puzzle of rich civilization with information from recently translated hieroglyphs and archaeological record, Schele and Freidel offer a fascinating view of life in the New World before the arrival of the Europeans. 16 pages of color photographs. |
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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
William E Leuchtenburg - Oxford University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents... |
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Jessica Hagy - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Its the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at lifes challenges and opportunities. A Bronze AgeInformation... |
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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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The Atlantic slave trade in world history
Jeremy Black - Routledge
Format: Hardcover
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In "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, " Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate... |
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Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
David Roediger - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedigers radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts... |
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Scott Shane - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama's campaign against... |
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The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
Jim Auchmutey - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him ... Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
Scott Cowen - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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After seven years of service as the president of Tulane University, Scott Cowen watched the devastation of his beloved New Orleans at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. When federal, state, and city officials couldnt find their way to decisive action, Cowen, known for his gutsy leadership,... |
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Devery S. Anderson - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless... |
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Malinda Maynor Lowery - The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity... |
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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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Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation
Robert D. Crews - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold challenge to these misperceptions, revealing how Afghans, over the course of their history, have engaged and connected... |
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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James Grant's story of America's last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this "carefully researched history ... makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes" (The... |
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Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Adrian Miller - The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish--such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens, and red drinks--Miller... |
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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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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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Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?
Philip Yancey - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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“Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?” Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever: in a twenty-year span starting in the mid-nineties, research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity... |
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The Encyclopedia of Country Music
Michael McCall - Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions about everything from... |
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Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
Edward Foley - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being... |
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Ned Sublette - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made... |
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Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775
Dobson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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Between 1650 and 1775 many thousands of Scots were banished to the American colonies for political, religious, or criminal offenses. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, for example, Oliver Cromwell transported thousands of Scots soldiers to Virginia, New England, and the West Indies.... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern... |
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Asian Americans
Xiaojian Zhao - Greenwood
Format: Book
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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day.* Presents information on Asian Americans and individual Asian... |
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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Ira Berlin - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation,... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance,... |
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the publisher of the prestigious Grants Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 192021 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, less is more. This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 200709 recession,... |
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Complete Encyclopedia of African History - Vol 3 Heroes and Heroines
Jessie Carney Smith - African American Publications
Format: Print book
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Volume 3: Heroes and Heroines An eclectic mix of profiles of 150 well know and lesser known individuals, who have made a lasting and profound impact on our culture. Personalities Covered: Hank Aaron; Robert S. Abbott; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Muhammad Ali; Maya Angelou; Arthur Ashe; Josephine... |
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
Ginger Strand - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt VonnegutIn the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab -- or "House... |
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon... |
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Preston Lauterbach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid history of Beale Streeta lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politiciansand the battle for the soul of Memphis.Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this... |
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Agincourt: The Fight for France
Ranulph Fiennes - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes' dynamic account of the Battle of Agincourt gives a unique perspective on one of the most significant battles in English history. On 25th October 1415, on a French hillside near the village of Agincourt, four men sheltered from the rain and prepared for battle. All four... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador
Format: Print book
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,... |
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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
Earl J. Hess - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil Wars Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Shermans advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city.... |
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The 20 Most Significant Events of the Civil War: A Ranking
Alan Axelrod - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of America's Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance. In each of the book's 20 detailed essays, author/historian/speaker Alan Axelrod presents an engaging narrative... |
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Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
Nathalia Holt - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Is the end of HIV upon us? Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind the discovery of a functional cure and what it means for the millions affected by HIV and the history of the AIDS pandemic. Two men, known in medical... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election,... |
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Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films
Matthew Field - History Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The first biography of the making of the James Bond series, drawing on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE * A Pulitzer Prize finalist thats as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist."Masterly ... An astonishing achievement." - The New York Times . The empire... |
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
Jesse Holland - LP
Format: Print book
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THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White... |
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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Book
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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Blood and earth : modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world
Kevin Bales - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking - and an inspiring,... |
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez - Penguin Books; Revised edition
Format: Book
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A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium.... |
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