An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Patty Krawec guides readers through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality in this primer on settler colonialism. Braiding together historical and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning call to "unforget" our history and become better relatives to one another.
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about U.S. imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair-a lament of lost causes;
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingames impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.
Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and ......
The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. ......
A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and th
The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.
How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an
Freedoms Furies tells the story of the friendships between three remarkable American novelists--Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand--who stood for individualism against the tides of the twentieth century collectivism, and in the process transformed politics in the United States.
Tells the story of Italian food arriving in the United States and how your favorite red sauce recipes evolved into American staples. In Red Sauce, Ian MacAllen traces the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine, often referred to as "red sauce Italian," from its origins in Italy to its transformation in America into a new, distinct ......
Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage
I’d rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States,& John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book Profiles in Courage was awarded the Pulitzer for biography, even though it wasn’t among the finalists for the prize.
Coming to Buffalo as a young man with a background as an itinerant printer's apprentice, newspaper reporter, and popular lecturer, Twain began his brief but impactful tenure at the Buffalo Express in 1869. One of his first decisions as managing editor was to accompany each of his Saturday feature stories with an illustration. But the sketches ......