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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
Edward J. Larson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding.New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve... |
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United... |
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
BUDDY LEVY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living... |
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
Christopher de Bellaigue - Macmillan
Format: Book
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"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds." - Orhan Pamuk, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Narrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century... |
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Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Steve Kemper - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated... |
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The Shortest History of Europe
John Hirst - Tantor Audio
Format: Paperback
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Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilization. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilization, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning and Christianity... |
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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
Larry Loftis - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII - at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only... |
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