Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.
History and geography
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Author:Hakim, JoySummary: - Author:Armstrong, Melissa DianeSummary:
During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required...
- Author:Bailey, BethSummary:
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in...
- Author:Gullachsen, Arthur W.Summary:
An army may march on its stomach, but it needs more than hot dinners to fight. As Canadians battled through Northwest Europe in the Second World War, how did they reinforce their front lines? An Army of Never-Ending Strengthprovides...
- Author:Standage, TomSummary:
Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy,...
- Author:Christensen, Jo-Anne, Shappka, DennisSummary:
This album is a collection of sentimental journeys into Edmonton's past - a time when a dime was all that was needed to see a movie, and couples skated across the glassy surface of a frozen lake that is now gone. These photos...
- Author:Larson, Edward J.Summary:
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed...
- Author:Brown, Jennifer S. H.Summary:
In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades,...
- Author:Dunbar-Ortiz, RoxanneSummary:
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-...
- Author:Glass, CathySummary:
When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she...
- Author:Fritzsche, PeterSummary:
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long...
- Author:Van de Wetering, MarionSummary:
This illustrated history of Ottawa traces the city's development from the days when Bytown was a lumber village to its emergence as Canada's capital and fourth-largest urban area. From the earliest photographs of the original...
- Author:Riordon, MichaelSummary:
An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions. Michael Riordon has...
- Author:Goodwin, Doris KearnsSummary:
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad , Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. Using wide-ranging sources, some previously untapped, Lucille Campey examines the driving forces behind the Scottish exodus...
- Author:Yeebo, YepokaSummary:
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."- The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." - Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian...
- Author:Fisher, HelenSummary:
First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why...
- Author:Barker, JohnSummary:
More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces has brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to...
- Author:Barnhart, EdwinSummary:
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now-with the technological advances of modern...
- Author:Martin, Thomas R.Summary:
In a new edition featuring updates throughout, this compact yet comprehensive history brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century BC. Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history...
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