History

New Books on the History Shelf

November 12, 2018 | SuzyQ
Beirut rules : the murder of a CIA station chief and Hezbollah's war against America and the West by 1958- Fred Burton
The bone and sinew of the land : America's forgotten black pioneers & the struggle for equality by Anna-Lisa Cox
The Cold War's killing fields : rethinking the long peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin

America in World War I

November 10, 2018 | SuzyQ

April 6, 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War I on the side of the Allies. More than 2 million American soldiers served before the war's end on November 11, 1918.

Crusader nation : the United States in peace and the Great War by David Traxel
Yanks : the epic story of the American Army in World War I by John S. D. Eisenhower

New Books on the History Shelf

November 5, 2018 | SuzyQ
They said no to Nixon : Republicans who stood up to the president's abuses of power by 1984- Michael Koncewicz
Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
Dominion : the history of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee by 1949- Peter Ackroyd

New Books on the History Shelf

October 25, 2018 | SuzyQ
The great explorers
Presidents of war by Michael R Beschloss
Behold, America : the entangled history of "America first" and "the American dream" by 1970- Sarah Bartlett Churchwell

New Books on the History Shelf

October 25, 2018 | SuzyQ
In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick
The library book by Susan Orlean
Behind the throne : a domestic history of the British royal household by Adrian Tinniswood

New Books on the History Shelf

October 17, 2018 | SuzyQ
A history of France by 1929-2018 John Julius Norwich
The King and the Catholics : England, Ireland, and the fight for religious freedom, 1780-1829 by 1932- Antonia Fraser
On desperate ground : the Marines at the reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle by Hampton Sides

Flu Season

October 15, 2018 | SuzyQ
Pale rider : the Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world by Laura Spinney
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook
American pandemic : the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic by 1958- Nancy K. Bristow
Very, very, very dreadful : the influenza pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin
Also available in: e-book

New Books on the History Shelf

October 2, 2018 | SuzyQ
Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates by Eric Jay Dolin
These truths : a history of the United States by 1966- Jill Lepore
Road to disaster : a new history of America's descent into Vietnam by 1960- Brian VanDeMark

New Books on the History Shelf

September 20, 2018 | SuzyQ
The fighters : Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq by C. J. (Christopher John) Chivers
A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost by 1946- Frye Gaillard
The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of the empire by 1959- Deborah Baker

Ahoy Mateys!

September 19, 2018 | SuzyQ
Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates by Eric Jay Dolin
The republic of pirates : being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down by 1968- Colin Woodard
Complete idiot's guide to pirates by Gail Selinger

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