Inside the Lives of History’s Biggest Names
Dive deeper into the life stories of these iconic figures. Click for More Biographies.
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Discover the Past Through Nonfiction
While the reads above use fiction to discuss the past, these books give us factual portraits of history taking readers through the Revolutionary War, the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Civil War, Women’s Suffrage, World War II, the Stonewall uprising, and more. Click for More History Books. Want more content like this? Click below to […]
#TBT: Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, whose courage and conviction as Prime Minister led Britain to an allied victory in the Second World War, is once-again part of our cultural conversation due to the popular biopic, The Darkest Hour. Gary Oldman took home the Oscar for Best Actor due to his exquisite embodiment of Churchill in the movie. To learn […]
Celebrate Memorial Day at Your Library
In honor of Memorial Day, we salute the United States of America with these books for the history buffs at your library. Click for More Books to Celebrate Memorial Day.
From the Pages of Your History Books to Your TV Screen
With the success of Dunkirk, your patrons will be looking for more history books that made the jump to the small and silver screens. Click for More History Books on Film.
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I Like Big History Books And I Cannot Lie
These aren’t your high school history books. With rich, fascinating detail, these history books tell the stories of some of the most interesting people and events of all time. Because sometimes, the truth is stranger, and more incredible, than fiction. The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton In the tradition of Empire of the Summer […]
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A Word from the Author, William Geroux
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-Boat assault off the American coast against the Merchant Marines who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort. Mathews County, Virginia, is a bleak strip of land along the Chesapeake with almost nothing to offer–but it sent […]
November is National Military Family Appreciation Month!
The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic. “In his superb new book, The Invisible Front, Yochi Dreazen paints a deeply disturbing portrait of the overstretched United States Army, downsizing in Afghanistan while deploying against the […]
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