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Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists

di Lynne Bowen

Muddling Through

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

di Anna Porter

In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every...

100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines

di Sam Stall

100 Cats Who Made a Difference

If you don’t believe that one cat has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Tibbles (p. 12), the cat who single-handedly wiped out an entire...

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

di D. Peter MacLeod

Nominated for the J.W. Dafoe Foundation Book Prize, Northern Armageddon presents a new and fascinating interpretation of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, one of the most dramatic and most important events...

Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt

di James Schneider

Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader’s critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. Just how did this obscure British junior...

Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents

di Leonard Benardo & Jennifer Weiss

"The American presidency . . . is merely a way station en route to the blessed condition of being an ex-president."

—John Updike

The presidency is a captivating concept in the hearts and minds of the American...

Our Kind of People

di Lawrence Otis Graham

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin...

Raiders and Rebels

di Frank Sherry

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans...

Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

di John Leppelman

From Dak To to the Tet Offensive, John Leppelman saw it all. In three tours of duty, he made combat jumps, spent months of fruitless effort looking for the enemy, watched as his budies died because of lousy...

Exorcising Hitler

di Frederick Taylor

The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany. The country's...

The Father of Us All

di Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of...

Wreck of the Carl D.

di Michael Schumacher

On the night of November 18, 1958, the Bradley, a 623-foot limestone carrier, was torn apart during one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history, sinking in less than five minutes. Only four members...

The Sound of Freedom

di Raymond Arsenault

Few moments in Civil Rights history are as important as the morning of Sunday April 9, 1939 when Marian Anderson sang before a throng of thousands lined up along the Mall by the Lincoln Memorial. She had been...

The Good Doctors

di John Dittmer

The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals, mostly white and Northern, to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists who were organizing black...

Half Moon

di Douglas Hunter

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has...

The Union of Their Dreams

di Miriam Pawel

A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four...

In Mortal Hands

di Stephanie Cooke

This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen as a possible solution to global warming. Few...

How Lincoln Learned to Read

di Daniel Wolff

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know?Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff...

1973 Nervous Breakdown

di Andreas Killen

1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis and the Watergate hearings....

Family Britain, 1951-1957

di David Kynaston

As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops...