History

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote (Hardcover)

By Craig Fehrman

$24.00

ISBN: 9781476786391

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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - February 11th, 2020

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Author in Chief is for every American history aficionado. Imagine spending 10 years to collect the facts and details behind many presidential publications which Craig Fehrman has done. He recounts untold stories and fits them into a fascinating retelling of presidential lives and publications. 

 

Megan

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson

$25.60

ISBN: 9780385348713

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Published: Crown - February 25th, 2020

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Award-winning author Eric Larson, author of the bestselling The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake among others, tells the fascinating story of the first year of the Battle of Britain and how Winston Churchill rose to the occasion, stood firm and convinced the world the British would stay calm and carry on.

Nathan

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan (Hardcover)

By Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard

$27.99

ISBN: 9781335141026

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Published: Hanover Square Press - April 30th, 2019

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An engaging read about a person whose name has almost been lost to history.

John

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy #1) (Hardcover)

By Rick Atkinson

$40.00

ISBN: 9781627790437

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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 14th, 2019

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Atkinson brings the same engaging narrative style and excellent researcher's eye for the telling detail to the American Revolution as he did for his masterly WW2/Europe trilogy. (And as a longtime citizen of Concord and history fan I'm a demanding audience!)

Gary

The Atlas of Boston History (Hardcover)

By Nancy S. Seasholes (Editor)

$40.00

ISBN: 9780226631158

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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 10th, 2019

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Visually stunning and beautifully designed, this comprehensive history of the city begins with its geological origins (under 4,000 feet of ice in the last Ice Age), through the periods before European colonization, 250 years as the most important city in North America, through the present day.  Many of the maps and illustrations are original for this volume, and the text represents the contributions of 40 historians, scholars and experts. It is that rare item, an indispensable reference book that is informative and gorgeous at the same time.

David

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99

ISBN: 9781568585987

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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

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So much of what seemed chaotic about American history and especially contemporary American politics snapped into clarity for me when I read this book. Kendi’s ideas absolutely changed the way I understand our current crisis, as well as the forces of racism and antiracism that have shaped our culture and society.

Josh

War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War #3) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

$30.00

ISBN: 9780544876804

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

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The final title of Hamilton’s 3-volume biography of FDR as commander-in-chief is a triumph. Compulsively readable yet with a masterful command of his source material, Hamilton gives us a fresh and detailed view of the last two dramatic years of FDR’s life from the wartime summit in Tehran, through the landings at D-Day, his election to a fourth term and the dying president’s  final Big Three conference at Yalta.

 

Dale

Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War (Paperback)

By Lynne Olson

$18.00

ISBN: 9780812987164

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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 6th, 2018

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From the queen of The Netherlands to the Earl of Suffolk, Paratroopers to civilians turned underground rebels, traitors to double agents, the victories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies of the resistance during WW2.

 

John

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)

By Christina Thompson

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062060877

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Published: Harper - March 12th, 2019

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Sea People is a fascinating historical and anthropological detective story about the peoples that settled the wide expanse of Pacific islands we today call Polynesia. It’s a book as much about how we’ve learned their story as well as the epic itself of how these lands were populated.

Dale

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Hardcover)

By Saidiya Hartman

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ISBN: 9780393285673

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 19th, 2019

 

A stunning, intimate examination of lives led by black women during the early 20th century who dared to strive for more than white society allowed them to be. Between the stark history, beauty of the prose, and determination of the subjects, this book left me speechless.

Stacey