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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking,... |
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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.... |
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham "Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero... |
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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One Day in May: 24 Hours in the Life of Indiana
Gary Dunham - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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On May 20, 2016, armed with only their cameras, Hoosiers set out to capture the nature of their state and its people -- from farmyards to city streets, state parks to suburbs, the familiar to the surprising -- and in the process document a rich and diverse culture in the everyday. In these... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world... |
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Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History
SAM MAGGS - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fun and feisty tour of famous girl BFFs from history who stuck together and changed the world.A modern girl is nothing without her squad of besties. But don't let all the hashtags fool you: the #girlsquad goes back a long, long time. In this hilarious and heartfelt book, geek girl... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart... |
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
Craig L Symonds - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize) , The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly) , and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature) , Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus... |
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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
Christine Pelisek - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Print book
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Christine Pelisek - petite, blonde, Canadian - seems the least likely reporter to have broken the story on the longest running serial killer west of the Mississippi. But in 2008 she did just that with her cover story for LA Weekly, shedding light on a suspected killer of women in South... |
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A Guide to Natural Areas of Northern Indiana: 125 Unique Places to Explore
Steven Higgs - Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
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Beautiful and pristine, the natural areas of Indiana are perfect for nature lovers with a desire to explore. Featuring more than 140 beautiful color photos, A Guide to Natural Areas of Northern Indiana showcases the region's unique ecosystems and includes descriptions of the flora,... |
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Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond
George Christie - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Christie was the negotiator,... |
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Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born,... |
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Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible
Roger Sparks - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how a young boy's upbringing with outlaw culture and charismatic role models forged him into an elite Marine and a decorated Pararescueman."Absence of self is my sword" comprises the final line in "The Warrior's Creed," a 14th century poem... |
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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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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Christopher Knowlton - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British... |
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
CLEMANTINE WAMARIYA - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not - could not - live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear,... |
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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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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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
REBECCA TRAISTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability... |
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A Black Women's History of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Taya Kyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new bookLife leads us through difficult terrain. But what happens if you use challenge as an opportunity to discover your PURPOSE? These Americans did and are changing the world.... |
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Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Linda Hirshman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The first history - incisive, witty, fascinating - of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in LawIn Reckoning, Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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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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Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Alexandra Zapruder - Twelve
Format: Print book
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The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world. Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he began filming President Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963 that his home movie would change not only his family's... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos - Little
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Figuring
Maria Popova - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with... |
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Mission Moon 3-D: A New Perspective on the Space Race
David J. Eicher - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.July 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11's epochal lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. This visually rich book... |
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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
David Lough - Picador USA
Format: eBook
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"Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position.... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017. More than forty... |
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot,... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Jennifer Teege - Experiment Llc
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback: The internationally bestselling memoir hailed as "unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) and "a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity" (BOOKLIST ) . At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf - and discovered... |
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M. Kruse - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times." -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesWhen -- and how -- did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Lincolns White House: The Peoples House in Wartime
JAMES B CONROY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeLincolns White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincolns inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants... |
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Survivor Caf: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
ELIZABETH ROSNER - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Survivor Caf takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer... |
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Great City Maps
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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A beautifully illustrated history of the world's most celebrated historical city maps, from the hubs of ancient civilization to sprawling modern mega-cities, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Great City Maps explores and explains 30 of the world's greatest... |
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Penguin Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Jimmy Blackmon - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since... |
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American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
Chris Kyle - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of America - from the Revolution to the present - through the lens of ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used... |
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat... |
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Once upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom - Blue River Press
Format: Print book
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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
Dave Isay - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Stories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave IsayIn Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very... |
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Flowers for Hitler: The Extraordinary Life of Ilse Dorsch
Mike Whicker - Walkure
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Flowers for Hitler is the true story of a young girl growing up in the Third Reich a young girl who was chosen to present flowers to Adolf Hitler during a parade. Ilse Dorsch, born in 1930 in Munich, became a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime and an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth.... |
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon H. Chang - Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West,... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals... |
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Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History
Christopher R. Fee - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This up-to-date introduction to the complex world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories provides insight into why millions of people are so ready to believe the worst about our political, legal, religious, and financial institutions.* Provides an in-depth, easy-to-access account of conspirators... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following... |
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National Geographic Almanac 2019: Hot New Science, Fearless Explorers, Epic Adventures. Incredible Photographs
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. - National Geographic
Format: Paperback
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A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way.An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key information on science, nature, history, and geography,... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
Porter Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A quest to rediscover America's other border -- the fascinating but little-known northern one.America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries -- much of the early... |
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Doug Bradley - University of Massachusetts Press
Format: Print book
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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple... |
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest... |
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First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience
Rod Pyle - Page Street Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look At NASA's incredible Journey to the MoonSpace journalist and insider Nancy Atkinson weaves together the riveting story of NASA's mission to complete "the greatest adventure on which humankind ever embarked."This incredible account is a keepsake celebrating... |
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Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War
LEWIS E LEHRMAN - Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lewis E. Lehrman, renowned historian and National Humanities Medal winner, gives new perspective on great statesmen and their leadership in wars of national survivalAbraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, as commanders in chief, led their nations to victory in wars of national survival - Lincoln... |
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