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This is the history of the people of Perry County.
(from the Introduction) Renie from Golden Pond is the true life story of Lorene Turner Higgins. Her story begins with her birth, which was in a log...
View full detailsFor fifteen years Anne Hathaway kept a diary. It was no ordinary diary, as Anne, an excellent writer of poems and songs in her own right, was also ...
View full detailsYou really can't believe everything you read . . . A premature newswire report announces the end of World War I, spurring wild celebrations in Ame...
View full detailsCritical acclaim for The Battle for Okinawa"An indispensable account of the fighting and of Okinawa's role in the Japanese defense of the home isl...
View full detailsThe first biography of a major figure in early US and African American historyA household name and unparalleled hero revered in every African Amer...
View full detailsA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictures.From the Smithsonian Institution's renowned Anacostia Museum and...
View full details"A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legion X-arguably the most famous legion of its day...
View full detailsCaptain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in Am...
View full detailsOne of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately ...
View full detailsA powerful tale of war, romance, and one of history's most desperate gambles.Julius Caesar was nothing if not bold. When, in the wake of his defeat...
View full detailsWe will walk on our own feet;we will work with our own hands;we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837From th...
View full detailsFocusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from...
View full detailsRespected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East ...
View full detailsThe Constitution was two years old and the United States was in serious danger. Bitter political rivalry between former allies and two surging issu...
View full detailsIn late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a confe...
View full detailsOn the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears foreve...
View full detailsAbundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...
View full detailsA compelling introduction to the fathers of America's presidents After so much literature about first ladies and first families, here finally is a...
View full detailsA portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his worldWas samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up b...
View full detailsA pair of silver Regency candlesticks.Pieces of well-worn family jewelry.More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographsLotte Meyerhoff's ...
View full detailsA moving and dramatic coming-of-age memoir of Charles Evers, one of the most colorful civil rights pioneers and brother of Medgar Evers, slain hero...
View full detailsFrom New York Times bestselling author James Brady-the story of Marine legend John Basilone, one of three main characters in HBO's The Pacific Gun...
View full detailsExplore the secrets of America's past with the official companion to PBS's History DetectivesCould a Civil War POW have fashioned a working camera...
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