One World, 2021.
Hardcover. A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty.....
Penguin Press, 2021.
Hardcover. A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the.....
Penguin Books, 2020.
Paperback. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's.....
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1926.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8x10-5/8", 1/2 gilt titled dark green cloth, marbled paper over boards, top-edge gilt, deckled fore-edge, xiii, ix, 780pp, index, 114 illustrations, 1p Marin Research Society publications, index. A limited edition of 97 copies, 87 of which are for sale; this set.....
Amistad Press, 2020.
Paperback. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's.....
Buffalo, New York: Hammond Press, 1915.
First Edition. Hardcover. 5-9/16 x 8-11/16", embossed red cloth, 59pp, 15 inserted plates on glossy paper, folding photographic view of Harper's Ferry, West VA. - 1915 (21-1/2" in length). A Union soldier's general history of The Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam and.....
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Paperbound. 9x11", pictorial wrappers, 24pp, list of demolished buildings, fully ilustrated catalogue. A survey of 21 extant buildings designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912) located in Chicago's Loop, with descriptive text, photographs, and architectural drawings for each. This Architecture in Context booklet.....
Scribner Book Company, 2012.
Paperback. From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a "thought-provoking meditation" (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime--now available in paperback.The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.
Hardcover. THE CASE FOR REFORMING THE FILIBUSTER -- An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used "the world's greatest deliberative body" to hijack our democracy.
Basic Books, 2021.
Paperback. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as.....
Basic Books, 2021.
Paperback. This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, grey cloth, xix, 362pp, 285 illus., 17 period-specific maps, apps., equipment rosters, folding map rear board. A lavishly illustrated history of the Oregon-American Lumber Company, one of the most important lumber firms in the Pacific Northwest between 1922 and.....
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1904.
First Edition. Hardcover. Keeler was an author, poet, and ornithologist. He moved to Berkeley, California, in 1871 and became Director of the California Academy of Sciences Natural History Museum in 1891. He was a great friend of Bernard Maybeck (to whom this book.....
Bold Type Books, 2017.
Paperback. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, the National Book Award-winning masterwork revealing how racist ideas were created, spread, and became deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist.....
One World, 2022.
Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the.....
Norton Young Readers, 2020.
Hardcover. Ages 8-12 Women Win the Vote! maps the road to the Nineteenth Amendment through compact, readable biographies of nineteen women who helped pave the way. From early feminist activist Lucretia Mott to radical twentieth century suffragist Alice Paul, this vibrant collection profiles both iconic figures.....
Red Lightning Books, 2019.
Hardcover. A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about--a maximum-security prison--and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated.....
Scribner Book Company, 2018.
Paperback. In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution.....
Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, 2018.
Paperback. "The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
The open-range cattle era.....
Denver, CO: World Press, Inc., 1979.
Illustrated by Richard Ward. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green leatherette over boards, ix, 528pp, epilogue, biblio., index, 925 black & white reproductions, 12 full-color paintings (including dust wrapper front panel), 11 with spider web embossed tissue guards, 22 line drawings. #2144 of a Limited.....
Camden, NJ: Gibbten Company, Inc., 1935.
First Edition. Hardcover. 7x10", burgundy cloth, original wrappers bound in, 162pp, 21 illus. including folding geneaological chart of the descendants of James & Judth Hart Pettigrew, and gilt & silver decorated color coats of arms of De Lancey and Beckett families. Volume I, Number.....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
Paperback. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2009.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition.
An assembly of rare objects and artworks documenting the formative years of The Velvet Underground, the band Time Out magazine named “the greatest New York musicians of all time.” Including photographs of the band's first live show in New York.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Paperback. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019.
Hardcover. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history--and the history of the idea of the nation itself--while calling for a "new Americanism" a generous patriotism that requires an.....
