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Top Books (History)
2004
| When Americans think about the American Revolution, certain names come quickly to mind--George Washington, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams. These men deserve to be remembered, yet their stories do not give us a clear picture of what life was like for the average person during the years before, during, and immediately after the war. Typical history books do not describe how a nine-year-old Massachusetts boy might have felt when his friend was killed in the Boston Massacre or what went through the m....[more] |
2008
| Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography,Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman.Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the ....[more] |
2000
| The author of "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War" tells the intimate story of his own Jewish heritage in this follow-up to his classic "This Is My God". Placing the Holocaust against the background of recurrent disasters and resurgence in Jewish history, Wouk examines the troubled wonder of Israel and the American Jewish diaspora. |
1994
| The story of a man who risked life and limb to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust to the world "I had the feeling from the moment I saw Karski that he carried secret, invisible wounds in him...I saw he was fighting back the memories."Elie Wiesel "A significant account of personal heroism-not only dramatic as a story but also a compelling moral message regarding the human condition . . . a superb read."Zbigniew Brezinski NOW IN PAPER! Working for the Polish Underground, Jan Karski witnessed f....[more] |
1971
| A hilarious book by one of the country's most popular humorists. |
2005
| The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country's collective memory as a disaster - probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a milli....[more] |
2008
| Examines the importance of warfare in the competition for colonial North America |
2008
| exposes subterfuge of propaganda from WW II and its aftermath |
1995
| Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this proc....[more] |
2007
| In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow.Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework. He shows how the Declaratio....[more] |
| During a time of political and social upheaval, when Popes were leading armies and city-states were falling into foreign hands, political theorist and Florentine public servant, Niccolò Machiavelli, rose to prominent position in the state and wrote one of the most stimulating political treatise ever scripted. Not published until five years after his death, "The Prince" examines the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power and how a prince might gain and maintain that power. Machiave....[more] |
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