American History
American History
Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco
An unprecedented look at the architect’s storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay AreaFrank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called “the most charming city in America.” Paul V. Turner looks at the architect’s...
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Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics
Designer Antonis Antoniou and award-winning author Steven Heller’s Decoding Manhattan reveal the mysteries and folkways of New York City in an entertaining collection of graphic art.The life and legend of New York City, from the size of its skyscrapers to the ways...
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Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity
Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity surveys the country’s most accomplished architectural firms, whose work enhances cities and landscapes across Canada’s geographically varied expanse. Author Leslie Jen explores a number of significant projects in urban and rural environments―private residences, cultural...
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Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey
Maps of the major escape routes Identifies houses and sites where slaves found refuge Chapter on Canada discusses the final destination Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its...
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring―and long-forgotten―heroes of the Civil War. Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days...
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring―and long-forgotten―heroes of the Civil War. Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days...
$15.95
The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring―and long-forgotten―heroes of the Civil War. Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days...
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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
A heroic reconstruction of the forgotten life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying,...
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Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War
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Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War
A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account. In March 1863, nine hundred black Union soldiers, led by white officers, invaded Florida and seized the town of Jacksonville. They were among the first African...
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Nelson Mandela
The Compact Guide The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that’s perfect for a wide audience. Nelson Mandela is perhaps the most iconic statesman and activist in history, and this is the...
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Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party
Just Another Nigger is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his...
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Man Called Brown Condor
The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935?
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Beyond Policing
Description What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It’s evident that policing is a problem. But what is the best way forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines...
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Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison
From a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would write him every day during his...
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s...
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Killing the Messenger
A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist When a nineteen-year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey in 2007—the most shocking killing of a journalist in the United States...
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual history of the South during the...
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From the Sidelines to the Headlines: The Legacy of Women's Sports at Trinity University
In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the women’s track team, emailed her alma mater’s athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the team’s 1975 season. It’s no surprise that they...
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The Popes against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy
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The Popes against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy
An account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against ProtestantsBased on previously undisclosed archival materials, this book tells the fascinating, untold, and troubling story of an anti-Protestant campaign in Italy that...
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Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide
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Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide
Jezebel died 3,000 years ago. But her spirit lives today. Jezebel was the most wicked woman in the Bible, a powerful seductress who killed the prophets, led Israel into idolatry and immorality, and emasculated men. She was seductive and determined...
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Hope for Ukraine
A Harrowing, Intimate Look into the Most Devastating War in Eight DecadesPart narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine--and the front lines of faith, survival, and miraculous intervention. From scrambling to escape the...
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The Bay Psalm Book: The First Book Printed in British North America, 1640
The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony came to the New World seeking religious freedom, and their first publication was a hymnal: The Bay Psalm Book, printed just twenty years after the Pilgrims' arrival. This book, with which the Pilgrims literally sang...
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Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts.Mahamudra, the “great seal,” refers to the ultimate nature of mind and reality, to a meditative practice for realizing...
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Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso
Senior scholars and former students celebrate the life and work of Janet Gyatso, professor of Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School. Inspired by her contributions to life writing, Tibetan medicine, gender studies, and more, these offerings make a rich feast...
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Early Buddhist Oral Tradition: Textual Formation and Transmission
A fascinating investigation into the formation and transmission of the early Buddhist oral tradition.For hundreds of years after his death, the Buddha’s teachings were transmitted orally, from person to person. In this volume, acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo examines the impact...
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Daughters of the Buddha: Teachings by Ancient Indian Women
A testimony to the invaluable contributions made by the women who were direct disciples of the Buddha—and a source of inspiration to Buddhist women today.It’s a common perception that the earliest textual records don’t contain many, if any, teachings by...
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Woodstock: History of an American Town
Few small towns in America have as colorful a history as that of Woodstock in Ulster County, New York. Set in a countryside of exceptional natural beauty, Woodstock from the first embodied the most enduring characteristics of the Catskills and...
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Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife...
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah (Volume 7)
Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his...
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Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
This #1 New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban available This modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed...
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