The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

Reducere. In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Great Britain, General George Washington...

Reducere. DescriptionStudents at Bell Gardens Elementary School learned about the Great Depression in their history class and soon found out that the history...

Reducere. An acclaimed New York Times bestseller, selected by Salon as a best book of the year, the astonishing untold story of the life and times of Sioux w...

A boat trip to the Farallon Islands near San Francisco to see the birds and sea-life there turns into a journey of terror as ghastly ghosts from th...

Reducere. The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah, captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Massachusetts, energizes this la...

Reducere. Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, an...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 e...

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Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

Reducere. A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers ente...

Reducere. The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock fas...

A timely history of the neglected figure of Daniel Sutton--the medical revolutionary who paved the way for present-day vaccination

Reducere. ``Very cool...a breezy American culinary history that you didn't know you wanted`` (Bon Appetit) reveals a fascinating look at our past and uses lo...

Reducere. Description- Notorious incident: In 1967 the spy ship USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats in international waters du...

In the early 1970s, two young filmmaking brothers unloaded their camera and recording equipment on the collapsing front porch of a dilapidated mano...

Reducere. NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night...

Reducere. Author Francis Bradford, a former Hall-Scott engineer, provides valuable resources and insight not available to any other Hall-Scott researcher. We...

"A compelling narrative of survival and redemption." --Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanForty years before the names Snowden and...

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Reducere. ``Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Indepe...

Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

As the war began to swing in the favor of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armored m...

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...