History

Chadwick Boseman, 1977-2020

August 29, 2020 | Patton

Chadwick Boseman will be long remembered for playing powerful Black icons. Boseman had starred as multiple historical and popular figures including Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and James Brown. But he is best know for inspiring movie-goers of all ages worldwide as The Black Panther. You can find all these films and more in the library collection. RIP and Wakanda Forever!

 

Black Panther [videodisc]
Marshall [videodisc]

New Books on the History Shelf

August 20, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

Life of a Klansman : a family history in white supremacy by 1958- Edward Ball
Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt by 1968- Steven Johnson

New Books on the History Shelf

August 17, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

The year of dangerous days : riots, refugees, and cocaine in Miami 1980 by 1971- Nicholas Griffin
To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq by Robert Draper

The 19th Amendment

August 16, 2020 | SuzyQ

On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting American women the right to vote. It was ratified on August 18, 1920 when Tennessee cast the deciding vote. Learn about the historic struggle for women's suffrage from the following resources found in the Library's collection.

Amendment XIX : granting women the right to vote
Mr. President, how long must we wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote by Tina Cassidy

On this August Day in History

August 3, 2020 | SuzyQ
Anne Frank : the biography by Melissa Müller

August 1, 1944.  Anne Frank wrote her last entry into her diary. Three days later, Anne and her family were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps.

Columbus : the four voyages by Laurence Bergreen

August 3, 1492.  Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain, with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

Shockwave : countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

August 6, 1945.  The first atomic bomb was dropped on the city  of Hiroshima, Japan  by the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay.

New Books on the History Shelf

July 30, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

How did we get here? : from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Robert Dallek
Hitler's true believers : how ordinary people became Nazis by 1943- Robert Gellately

New Books on the History Shelf

July 22, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

The escape artist by Helen Fremont
Great state : China and the world by 1951- Timothy Brook

New Books on the History Shelf

July 17, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

Love in the blitz : the long-lost letters of a brilliant young woman to her beloved on the front by 1917-1986 Eileen Alexander
Putin's people : how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West by Catherine Belton

New Books on the History Shelf

July 10, 2020 | SuzyQ

Check out these new titles recently added to the Library's History shelves.

Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades by Bernard Bailyn
Land of wondrous cold : the race to discover Antarctica and unlock the secrets of its ice by Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Independence Day

July 2, 2020 | SuzyQ
The spirit of '74 : how the American Revolution began by Ray Raphael
1775 : a good year for revolution by Kevin Phillips
Boston's massacre by Eric Hinderaker

On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity.

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