Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.
History
- Author:KRAKOUER, RaySummary:
- Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:
Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, and includes profiles of notable women in the struggle...
- Author:Schanzer, RosalynSummary:
Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of...
- Author:Farrall, PamelaSummary:
Set entirely in Western Australia it traces the seven generations of this one man Anthony Barnabas Curtis who had humble beginnings at the Swan River Colony (now known as Fremantle) in 1830, just 14 months after it was founded.
- Author:Holden, AnthonySummary:
Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.
- Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:
William McKinley was the first U.S. president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that...
- Author:Sandlin, Lee.Summary:
Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi--the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks--spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries and...
- Author:Steckley, JohnSummary:
- Which Chosen People? Manifest Destiny Meets the Sioux, As Seen by Frank Fiske, Frontier PhotographerAuthor:Dodge, Robert V.Summary:
Frank Fiske was a young boy in 1890 when he moved to Fort Yates on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where Sitting Bull was being held in a form of house arrest. He observed the confrontation of two chosen people. The whites believed...
- Author:Van Buren, Abigail, Salinger, PierreSummary:
In October 1992, Dear Abby asked her readers, "Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?" More than 300,000 people took the trouble to respond. While several responses were published in December 1992, it became obvious...
- Author:Robinson, RogerSummary:
Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 "Austerity Olympics" in London as a young spectator to...
- Author:Kerr, JudithSummary:
In 1933, nine-year-old Anna is too young to worry about Adolf Hitler and about being Jewish in pre-war Berlin. Suddenly, however, everything changes..
- Author:Mezrich, Joshua D.Summary:
Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich takes us inside the operating room to unlock the process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. Mezrich examines...
- Author:Macy, Sue.Summary:
Discusses how the invention of the bicycle allowed women to take charge of personal transportation and set the stage for women's future battles for rights equal to men. Discusses how the bicycle has evolved throughout the ages and...
- Author:Rather, Dan.Summary:
"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." -Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity...
- Author:Linton, JamieSummary:
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with...
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We Still Demand! recovers vibrant and unsung histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Departing from conventional accounts, this book demonstrates the varied nature of resistance and the...
- Author:Belanger, Yale DeronSummary:
- Author:McPherson, James M.Summary:
McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy,...
- Author:Sedgwick, JohnSummary:
In the summer of 1804, two of America's most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. That two such men would risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped...