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Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Archaeology is the key that unlocks our deepest history. Ruined cities, golden treasures, cryptic inscriptions, and ornate tombs have been found across the world, and yet these artifacts of ages past often raised more questions than answers. But with the emergence of archaeology as a scientific... |
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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 Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
John Wood Sweet - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned historian John Sweet offers a riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries -- and how much has not.On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed... |
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Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump
DARREN J MULLOY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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San Antonio: A Tricentennial History
Char Miller - Texas State Historical Assn
Format: Paperback
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This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from the community's origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American mega-city. Site of some of the most... |
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Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Tabitha Stanmore - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.. Imagine: it's the year 1600, and you can't find your keys. You've scoured your house. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, the first port of call... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Laurence Rees
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Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything... |
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