Ferguson: Americas Breaking Point
Tim SuerethIt's difficult to truly understand Ferguson, Missouri, the Michael Brown shooting, or present-day race relations in America without first getting a grasp on the historical events that preceded the 2014 riots. Events, attitudes, and p...
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became...
Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, ...
Eduardo GaleanoThe third volume of Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano’s singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison ...
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical r...
In Pursuit of Dorothie: The Lost Colo...
Donald Paul UpchurchWhy did the first English explorers sent by Queen Elizabeth to America abandon the first colony in 1587? This book reveals clues to the mystery surrounding the ships and the settlements along the shores of the Outer Banks, North Carol...
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckl...
Daniel BrownOn September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story tha...
The Great Illusion: An Informal Histo...
Herbert Asbury"An absorbing and at times ironical humorous picture of the battle of Prohibition. Recommended." — Library JournalWith the passing of the Volstead Act, the United States embraced Prohibition as the law of the land. From 19...
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Da...
Margaret Lazarus DeanWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seem...
It Shouldn't Happen (to a Dog)
Don FreemanArmy life didn't agree with GI Albert C. Bedlington, Jr. He felt like he was always crawling on all fours, and one day when the very thing he'd feared for months finally happened — he had become a dog! The fellas all recognized him,...
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1 (Me...
Eduardo GaleanoGenesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author’s words, an attempt to rescue the kidnapped memory of al...
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Fre...
Greg GrandinNEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICESAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOKOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying sc...
An excellent reference for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Constitution, this compilation of eighty-five articles explains and defends the ideals behind the highest form of law in the United States. The essays were writ...
The Book of Patagonia: Its History fr...
Juan Manuel Herrera Traybel@bookofpatagonia The Book of Patagonia is a wonderful historical chronicle of this place known as the end of the world. Magellan arrived here in 1520, but a lot happened before and after that as well. The indigenous people, the...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Capt...
Captivating HistoryIf you want to discover the captivating and cruel history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, then keep reading... Did you know that during the 18th century on certain Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica and Antigua, roughly 90 percent ...
Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA i...
Mark LaneMark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in...
William Bingham Meade: My Story of th...
Elaine Meade MeddingsWilliam Bingham Meade was the fourth great grandfather of the author, Elaine Meddings. This book tells his story, starting at the Battle of Cowpens in northwestern South Carolina. For many historians, the Battle of Cowpens was the tu...
Life in the Far WestBy George Frederic Ruxton------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cul...
Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the M...
Peter G. TsourasLearn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico.More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these char...
Captain Lightfoot: The Last of the Ne...
Frederick W. WaldoA desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortl...
Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America...
John WingateIn 1967, the largest cave search in US history unfolded in historic Hannibal, Missouri, the boyhood home of author Mark Twain. Three modern day Tom Sawyers, with no caving expertise but an abundance of bravado, made Hannibal ground ze...