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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times "A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Between the end of the Thirty Years'...
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil WarWinner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History--the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The very existence of freedom suits assumed that...
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Appalachian Heart: Oral Histories of the Mountain EldersUse it up, wear it out, make it do, or do withoutIn the western highlands of Virginia, the last generation of mountain people continue to live where their ancestors have lived for hundreds of years. Although they now have the amenities of basic living,...
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Losing Earth: A Recent HistoryBy 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world...
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The Terror War: The Uncomfortable Reality of the War of IndependenceDuring the Irish War of Independence, the British and the Irish sides often reflected one another. Both the Irish and the British did well in some areas, and were deficient in others. But both sides used terror - murder - burnings - shearing women's...
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New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." -- Jack DelanoAmid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to...
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The Last Fish War: Survival on the RiversLawney Reyes gives a firsthand description of some of the characters and incidents surrounding the battle for Native American fishing rights in the 1950s and 1960s near Tacoma, Washington. Cameo appearances by Marlon Brando, Dick Gregory and others make this account a must-read for...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceWatch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than...
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The Texas City Disaster, 1947On April 16, 1947, a small fire broke out among bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the hold of the ship Grandcamp as it lay docked at Texas City, Texas. Despite immediate attempts to extinguish the fire, it rapidly intensified until the Grandcamp exploded...
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The Cold War: A HistoryThe history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954. So begins The Cold War: A History, a wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator Martin Walker, which was one of the first major studies of its kind. Now that...
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The Passionate SpiesThis is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a...
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Lewis W. Hine. America at WorkPhotographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with his humanist concerns, Hine was one of the earliest photographers to use the camera...
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What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late...
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Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights MovementIn Black Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights...
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Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey: Prohibition in MemphisProhibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country--but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and...
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second EditionModern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. It can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contemporary Chinese politics,...
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A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race RiotOriginally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and Dean of the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at Shaw University. In this thoroughly researched, definitive study, LeRae...
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay WashingtonThe New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2022Named one of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of 2022""Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It...
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Billy Dixon & Adobe Walls: Scout, Plainsman & Buffalo HunterLife and Adventures of "Billy" Dixonby Billy Dixon The Battle of Adobe Wallsby Edward Campbell Little Two essential accounts of the south western plains in frontier days This special edition book contains two works-'Billy' Dixon's remarkable autobiography of his life on the south western...
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The Marine Corps Combined Action Program in the Vietnam WarThe Marine Corps Combined Action Program was a part of the Vietnam War that is not commonly known. Marines and Navy Corpsmen were embedded in the villages and hamlets of Vietnam. Marines were augmented by Vietnamese Popular Forces somewhat akin to a local militia....
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