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There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Philip Dray - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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National Geographic Infographics
Julius Wiedemann - Taschen
Format: Print book
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A history of knowledge The best infographics from the National Geographic archives Back in the days when the information age was a distant dream and the world a more mysterious place, National Geographic began its mission to reveal the wonders of history, popular science, and culture to eager... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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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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The SS
Time-Life Books - Time-Life Books
Format: Hardcover
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The SS is a volume in the Time-Life Third Reich series. This Time-Life work is an excellent historical overview of the SS. Good introduction for the casual historian. With illustrations and photographs., |
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
VIET THANH NGUYEN - Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback
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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review "The Year in Reading" SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Steven Solomon - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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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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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Jim Frederick - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black... |
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Japan at War 1931-45: As the Cherry Blossom Falls
David McCormack - Fonthill Media
Format: Print book
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This fascinating history, recounted from both the American and Japanese perspectives, follows the course of the Empire of the Sun's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Drawing on archive material, this new history provides the reader with piercing strategic... |
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Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families
Janet I Farley - Rowan & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Making the most of all your new military life has to offer can be difficult when you aren't familiar with what life in the military really means. Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families answers many of the questions that service members and their family may have... |
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
Frederick Brown - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of mile Zola MagnificentThe New Yorker and Flaubert Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely writtenThe New Republic now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching booka perfect joining of subject and writer a portrait... |
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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
James M. Tabor - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earth's deepest... |
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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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Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The fullest, most intimate account of life in the Green Zone, the sheltered bubble where idealistic Americans planned the occupation while Iraq fell apart.The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition... |
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
William Geroux - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine... |
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson - Twelve
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego.... |
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three... |
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way
P J O'Rourke - Pgw
Format: Hardcover
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P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions,... |
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Boeing
John Fredrickson - Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Format: Print book
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In 1916, an airplane company was established in the previous Heath shipyard along the Duwamish River, situated a short distance south of Seattles Elliott Bay. Work on the first two airplanes was already well underway as the articles of incorporation for Pacific Aero Products Company established... |
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Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
Dominic Lieven - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic events in European history. However, Tolstoyan myth and an imbalance of British and French interpretations... |
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick - Spiegel & Grau; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic... |
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story
Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"Destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. . . A beautifully written account of a young Israeli soldier's experience. A stunning achievement." - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy... |
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz - Basic Civitas Books
Format: Print book
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Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Sarah Rose - Viking Adult; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China... |
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Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 18611865
Thomas W Cutrer - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi... |
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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement... |
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Honey: A Global History
Lucy M Long - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Whether drizzled into our tea or spread atop our terms of endearment, there's one thing that is always true about honey: it is sweet. As Lucy M. Long shows in this book, while honey is definitely the natural sweetener par excellence, it has a long history in our world as much more,... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language
Deborah Fallows - Walker & Company; First American Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles... |
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Fircrest
Ralph R Colyer - Arcadia Library Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Fircrest was ready and waiting when America exploded into the modern era following World War II. In 1906, the creative energy of Edward "Major" Bowes, of Amateur Hour fame, combined with the engineering brilliance of Mat R. Thompson to create the quintessential American suburb.... |
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Pacific Northwest's Whaling Coast
Dale Vinnedge - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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Pacific Northwest waters from Alaska to Oregon lie between the Arctic whaling grounds and the home whaling ports of San Francisco and Honolulu. While the Pacific Northwest was not a whaling destination, whales in these rich grounds were pursued for many years as whale ships moved between... |
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The Value of a Dollar 1860-2014: Prices and Incomes in the United States
Scott Derks - Grey House Pub; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This fifth edition of the highly successful The Value of a Dollar records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present, along with facts about investment options and income opportunities. |
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Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
Marcia A Zug - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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There have always been mail-order brides in America but we haven t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called Tobacco Wives of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner
Format: Print book
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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, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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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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Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Sam Howe Verhovek - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel... |
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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Jack Rakove - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become revolutionary by ambition, but when events in Boston... |
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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Michael Hiltzik - Free Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insiders view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city... |
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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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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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Ladies' Haircult: Women's Hairstyles and Culture from 1920 to 1980
Giulia Pivetta - Ore Cultura Srl
Format: Hardcover
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Women's hair was one of many battlegrounds in the long struggle for women's liberationContains stories, anecdotes and secrets about the styles that make women's heads so singularly expressiveWomen's hairstyles have changed dramatically over the past century. Charting the progression... |
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
JULIA PIERPONT - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. A Stylist Must-read Book of 2018 In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War
Julie Summers - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country's war effort. As members of the Women's... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through... |
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Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America
Ross Coen - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricanes Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail... |
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America's Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
Julia Bricklin - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Print book
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Today, most remember "California Girl" Lillian Frances Smith (1871-1930) as Annie Oakley's chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows' female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley's conservative "prairie beauty" persona... |
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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Bethany McLean - Portfolio Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."--Shakespeare, The Tempest As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies,... |
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The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
Rich Cohen - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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A panoramic, stylish narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of Vanity Fair contributor Rich Cohen, who traveled with the band in the 1990s as a reporter for Rolling Stone. Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road... |
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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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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
Clinton Romesha - Dutton Books
Format: Print book
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The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949
Richard Reeves - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II - pilots, navigators, and mechanics - who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report... |
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Rebecca Goldstein - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy,... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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Named a 2016 Best of Book of the Year by The EconomistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents,... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson - Random House; Third Impression edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire - three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle,... |
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The Propeller under the Bed: A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
Eileen A Bjorkman - University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
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On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the flight represented the culmination of a dream he'd cultivated since his childhood in the 1930s.Eileen... |
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The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
Michael S Neiberg - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted... |
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Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Lynn Bragg - Two Dot Books
Format: Paperback
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Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author L.E. Bragg recounts seventeen myths... |
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Marked for Death: A History of the First War in the Air
James Hamilton-Paterson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly... |
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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Kalee Thompson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship's... |
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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
Ira Berlin - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation... |
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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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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
G.J. Meyer - Delacorte Press; Later prt. edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality in all its wild excess.In 1485, young Henry Tudor,... |
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
Charles Glass - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season, from the spring... |
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A Short History of Britain in Infographics
RAY HAMILTON - Summersdale
Format: Hardcover
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Dive into this visually inspired, fun, and insightful guide to the United Kingdom, past and present, packed full of historical highlights from the dark days of ancient Britain to the lightning-fast Age of Information. Discover the stomach-churning scope of Henry VIII's voluminous diet,... |
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Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
Robert Leckie - Da Capo Press; Media tie-in edition
Format: Print book
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Written by Robert Leckie, whose wartime exploits will be featured this spring in the upcoming Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg HBO miniseries The Pacific, Strong Men Armed has been a perennial bestselling classic account of the Pacific theater in World War II. As scout and machine-gunner for the First... |
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A Renegade History of the United States
Thaddeus Russell - Free Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize... |
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 - The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON... |
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
T A Mort - Pegasus Books
Format: Book
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In a powerful evocation of the drama of the American West, here is the harrowing story of the feud that ignited the Apache Wars.In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of an Arizona rancher was kidnapped by Apaches; a band of Chiricahua Apaches led by the infamous warrior Cochise was blamed... |
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The epic history of the crossroads of the world - the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise... |
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America's Four Gods: What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us
Paul Froese - Oxford University Press, USA; 1St Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Despite all the hype surrounding the "New Atheism," the United States remains one of the most religious nations on Earth. In fact, 95% of Americans believe in God--a level of agreement rarely seen in American life. The greatest divisions in America are not between atheists and believers,... |
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How to Lose WWII: Bad Mistakes of the Good War
Bill Fawcett - William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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How to Lose WWII is an engrossing, fact-filled collection from Bill Fawcett that sheds light on the biggest, and dumbest, screw-ups of the Great War. In the vein of his other phenomenal compendiums of amazing battlefield blunders, How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War, Fawcett focuses... |
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The Geology of Washington and Beyond: From Laurentia to Cascadia
Eric S Cheney - Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources
Format: Print book
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The 20 chapters of The Geology of Washington and Beyond -- an outgrowth of a geologic symposium -- present the substantial advances in recent research on the geologic history of Washington State. The 32 contributors used new conceptual developments such as sequence stratigraphy, identification... |
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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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Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories
Donna A Lowery - Authorhouse
Format: Print book
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Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories, by Donna Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, chronicles the participation of American military women during the Vietnam War. This little-known group of an estimated 1,200 women from the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy left its mark in Vietnam from... |
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor - Riverhead Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black... |
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Russia
Richard Joseph Stein - Hw Wilson Co
Format: Print book
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The nation of Russia its history, culture, economy, domestic politics, and foreign relations is the focus of this title. Russia paints a full portrait of the complex nation, from the founding of Kievan Rus'-the medieval kingdom that would become Russia- through czarist rule, revolution,... |
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
Jane Brox - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded... |
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The Great Halifax Explosion
JOHN U BACON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped... |
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Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
William Breuer - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book
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Having searched through stacks of periodicals, military reports, interviews, and other publications, author William Breuer has discovered over one hundred such illogical events, and presents them in Unexplained Mysteries of World War II.From popular mysteries to barely believable happenings,... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallelthe line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equatoris a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the worlds 1.3 billion... |
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Fighting in the Shadows: The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War
HARRY G LANG - GALLAUDET UNIV PRESS
Format: Print book
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This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, Fighting in the Shadows reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldiers and civilians who lived during... |
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The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race -- not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked... |
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The Holocaust: History and Memory
Jeremy Black - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany's... |
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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Todd Miller - City Lights Books
Format: Paperback
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"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . . Miller's book arrives at a moment... |
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
CHRISTOPHER OLDSTONE-MOORE - UNIV OF CHICAGO Press
Format: Print book
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Beards - they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today... |
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From the Marine Corps to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
Jillian Ventrone - Rowan & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have taken a harsh toll on our military's population. Some service members come back from combat ready for a change of pace, others get caught up in the draw down currently occurring within the services. Many of these service members decide to pursue higher... |
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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Jeffrey E. Garten - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something... |
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Lee Smith - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place... |
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
BRIAN CASTNER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling... |
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A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America
Oscar Martinez - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people - men, women, and children - flee these three countries for North... |
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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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When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House
Jeffrey A. Engel - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped presidential decision-making in critical... |
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The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Kenneth C. Davis - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine) , Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold... |
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Consequence: A Memoir
Eric Fair - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest... |
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Dlx Rep edition
Format: Paperback
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Its a wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The ImmigrantsIt should be required reading. Eric Foner, New York Times... |
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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-harm
Sarah Chaney - Reaktion Books
Format: Print book
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It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago - with the introduction of institutional asylum... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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