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In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B.

Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was fo

In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was banished to Siberia with his family.

Just in time for the 20th anniversary of Spy’s creation comes the definitive anthology, inside story, and scrapbook.

Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and

A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800.

As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, a new nonfiction anthology promises to

Rediscovering America explores the lost history of America in an accessible timeline format. ...

This groundbreaking work is the first and only full-color hardcover book on North Korean orders and medals. It has 120 pages and over 300 color photos depicting various orders and medals.

In the late 1950s the Soviet Union shocked the world by placing a small satellite—Sputnik—in orbit around the earth.

American GIs who participated in the invasions of such far-flung Pacific Ocean locations as New Georgia, Makin, Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok during World War II could always count on a blisterin

To the millions of Americans on the home front during World War II, Ernie Pyle’s column

From fighting for the cause of freedom during the Civil War to writing of one of the best-selling books of all time, Lew Wallace of Indiana enjoyed a remarkable career that touched the lives of suc

Famed Indiana author Booth Tarkington once took on the task of naming three of Indianapolis's most outstanding citizens.

From his key role in adopting the Australian ballot system in Indiana to his ultimately failed attempt at enacting a new state constitution, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Jr.

Is the separation of church and state a myth? Was the United States founded as a "Christian nation"? ...

Adam’s Belle is a roller coaster ride through the life of the late Isabel Washington Powell.

Hip-hop is one of the most important global arts movements of the past two decades, moving beyond rap music to transform theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography,

Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, Oliver Chin creates a compelling blend of ...

The opening up of the American West.

The life and accomplishments of Captain James Cook, who peacefully changed the map of the world more than anyone else in history.

When Mary Cole, a butcher's daughter, caught the eye of Lord Berkeley, it was as flint to tinder.

This is the story of one community's struggle to bring New Jerusalem out of the clouds during a quarter of a millennium of radical change.

The popular, well-illustrated 103-page book, first published in 1993 and reprinted in 1998, provides basic information about the Library's history, collections and buildings.

The three imposing buildings of the Library of Congress--the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building--are remarkable but very di ...

Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins.

An American Awakening tells the remarkable story of citizens entering landscapes of violence and death to rescue human life and bein

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"Age of Obama: A Reporter's Journey with Clinton, McCain and Obama in the Making of the President 2008" is a first-hand account of

Screenwriter and novelist Dalessandro (Bohemian Heart) pens an imaginative and dense interplay between fact and fiction in this story of corruption, crime lords and the great San Francisco earthquake

Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consu

In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared.

Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records.

An extensive tour of Oregon vineyards and wineries and visits to wine country villages and towns. 

"Chosen - Not Cursed!", is a treatise on Biblical Black History. It dismisses the myth that blacks are a cursed race.

This book deals with the present effects of bondage that comes through systems that benefit by the categorization and enslavement of people, especially black people.

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States.

This is a story about Marranos (also known as anusim, forc

"As an Ioway Indian, [Lance Foster] is interested in the landscape as it was when his ancestor

My essay "A Closing Circle: Musings on the Ioway Indians in Iowa" is in The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa (An Expanded Edition), Edited by Gretchen

The University of Alabama Press says about the book: "

 "In this objective, accurate, readable and well-researched book, one will find information on the history and geography, the economic and political systems, the flora an ...

THE STORY OF LOVE

In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged– and reputations ruined–with the tilt of a fan, Mélanie Fraser is the perfect wife.

From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life, attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short, un

The Atlantis myth, one of the defining narratives of the modern age, also has unnerving similarities to the fate we are creating for ourselves through global warming.

A harrowing but ultimately hopeful vision of the aftermath of the age of oil, The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age explores the approaching end of an industrial c

In response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world - not returning to the past, but creating

Analyzes Shakespeare'xs persistent use of contraries in the light of Renaissance continental philosophy.

The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it.

A mosaic sketch of the twentieth century's leading chemist, and the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, comprised of excerpts from his writings and original commentary.

My Soul is A Witness explores the rich legacy of African American sacred music, focusing on the theological import of this music born of oppression.

Finding God in the Shadows: Stories From the Battlefield of Life is a collection of non-fiction stories by military historian Peter Huchthausen, coupled with theological reflections by Marsha Hansen.

Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic We

The story of California began when a Portuguese captain sailing for Spain found a beautiful natural harbor as he plied his way up the Pacific coast.

Celebrating beloved cities from around the world, this book from the Then and Now series offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty.

Celebrating beloved cities from around the world, this book from the Then and Now series offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty.

Celebrating beloved cities from around the world, this book from the Then and Now series offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty.

Kat, Stealer of Memories, brings the wrath of Ra down upon her. She risks her status among the pride by freeing her mortal enemy, an Anubian dog named Nikos, Keeper of Secrets.

An astonishingly assured and compelling debut, When I Forgot explores the relationship between a sister and her brother, the past that they share, and the painful memories tha

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others?

In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions a

This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a diffe

Hoffman here proves herself a first-rate guide to Eastern Europe, offering vivid snapshots of conditions in the former Soviet satellites.

This book is a comprehensive view of India's foreign policy and relations from 1947-2006.

London caught up in the feverish excitement of the South Sea Bubble and Paris under the licentious influence of the Duc D'Orleans make a glittering background for Koen's first novel.

It is the winter of 1949: Tom and Wendy Hickey are at peace in their Lake Tahoe cabin awaiting the birth of their first child.

THE VAGABOND VIRGINS, Baja California, 1979

The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War’s most significant yet little-known battles.

Fact:  one-third of all the immigrants to America returned to their country of origin.  Although many of them came intending to go home once they had earned seed money to establish themselves i

Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, The Shadows of Youth provides a carefully woven

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Filmmaker and Film critic Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 1947.

This collection, Volume 2 of the Stone Bridge Anthology  of Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, introduces the work of three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse. Poet

MANOA: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War, anthology ofJapanese literature in translation, Volume

Madison reviews Peter Gabel's The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning.

The “fight” is the 1975 world heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between then reigning king of the ring Muhammad Ali and up-and-coming George Foreman.

The powerful story of three men -- father, son and grandson -- whose combined experience in dealing with prisoners in Alabama spans more than forty-five years.

Bloomsbury Pie examines the persistent allure of Bloomsbury (the circle around Virginia Woolf)--a fascination driven by nostalgia, adoration, and antipathy--and tracks the resurgence of interest in th

The letters of the British Post-Impressionist painter Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of critic Clive Bell, lover of critic Roger Fry, life partner of Duncan Grant, and mother of the

A narrative exploration of one of the most violent labor showdowns in American history, in which more than 75 people were killed over seven months.

Since the United States Army’s inception by an act of Congress on June 14, 1775, its remarkable service members have engaged in almost every one of the most important turning points in our nation

The American Civil War is a cornerstone event of American history.

On Friday, October 13, 1775, Congress decided to send two ships to harass the vessels supplying the British Army in America, thereby creating what would become the most powerful navy in the history of

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE BRAVE On Friday, November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most revered Presidents in the history of the United States. His persistence saved the Union, and preserved our Constitution.

With Strong and Active Faith is an inspring collection of sayings by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Each chapter is introduced with a story and organized by theme.

"One O'Clock Jump" is like a time capsule, transporting a tale of murder, greed, and intrigue from vint

Europe is at war. Nazi bombers are hammering London. Wendell Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money.

The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the face by Southwest Indians, then ransomed back five years later. ...

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s.

...a storehouse of information about all aspects of the presidents' lives. – Oklahoma City Oklahoman.

During the twentieth century, Americans have gone to war, abolished child labor, given women the right to vote, and created civil rights legislation.