America the beautiful: rediscovering what made this nation great

By Carson, Ben

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973 CAR

Tackling the issues at the forefront of the American mind--healthcare, education, capitalism, and more America the Beautiful is indispensable reading. From Dr. Ben Carson, here is a sobering and inspiring manifesto of America's greatness, her failings, and the values and changes it will take to carry our country into a brilliant and prosperous future.

Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin

By Lepore, Jill

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.3092 LEP

A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.

Surgeon in blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care

By McGaugh, Scott

Publishing Date: [2013]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.7 MCG

Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.

This terrible sound: the battle of Chickamauga

By Cozzens, Peter

Publishing Date: [1992]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.735 COZ

When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began one of the bloodiest and most decisive campaigns of the Civil War. The climactic Battle of Chickamauga lasted just two days, yet it was nearly as costly as Gettysburg, with casualties among the highest in the war. In this study of the campaign, the first to appear in over thirty years and the most comprehensive account ever written on Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens presents a vivid narrative about an engagement that was crucial to the outcome of the war in the West. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untapped sources, Cozzens offers startling new interpretations that challenge the conventional wisdom on key moments of the battle, such as Rosecrans's fateful order to General Wood and Thomas's historic defense of Horseshoe Ridge. Chickamauga was a battle of missed opportunities, stupendous tactical blunders, and savage fighting by the men in ranks. Cozzens writes movingly of both the heroism and suffering of the common soldiers and of the strengths and tragic flaws of their commanders. Enhanced by detailed battle maps and original sketches by the noted artist Keith Rocco, this book will appeal to all Civil War enthusiasts and students of military history.

The shipwreck of their hopes: the battles for Chattanooga

By Cozzens, Peter

Publishing Date: c1994

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.7359 COZ

Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens's highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West. The battles around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory. Cozzens's comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments, even as it reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens draws on his acclaimed storytelling skills and exhaustive research efforts to fully chronicle one of the South's most humiliating defeats. As in his earlier books, he brings to life the officers and enlisted men who fought the war.

Soldier life

Publishing Date: 2007,c1996

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.742

In our time

By Wolfe, Tom

Publishing Date: c1980

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.9 WOL

Nearly one hundred black-and-white caricatures, accompanied by captions or by full prose vignettes, reveal the fancies, foibles, and leading types of the 1970s - (Baker & Taylor)

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker

By Cordery, Stacy A.

Publishing Date: 2007

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.91 COR

Alice Roosevelt Longworth lived her entire life on the political stage and in the public eye, earning her the nickname "the other Washington monument." Historian Cordery presents a detailed and entertaining portrait of the witty and whip-smart daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. "Princess Alice" was a tempestuous teenager. Smoking, gambling, and dressing flamboyantly, she flouted social conventions and opened the door for other women to do the same. Her husband was Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth but--as Cordery documents for the first time--she had a child with her lover, Senator William Borah of Idaho. Alice's political acumen was widely respected in Washington. She was a sharp-tongued critic of her cousin FDR's New Deal programs, and meetings in her drawing room helped to change the course of history, from undermining the League of Nations to boosting Nixon. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, her legendary salons remained the center of political ferment.--From publisher description.

John F. Kennedy

By Brinkley, Alan

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.922 BRI

Brinkley shows in this incisive and lively assessment that the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. Kennedy seemed to live on a knife's edge, moving from one crisis to another and his controversial public life mirrored his hidden private life.

Legacy of secrecy: the long shadow of the JFK assassination

By Waldron, Lamar

Publishing Date: c2009

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.922 WAL

Bulldog historian of the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, Waldron argues that the decades-long coverup was intended not so much to protect the killers, but to maintain the secrecy of a US agent planted in the Cuban military, and the associated coup plot. The first edition, which seems to have been published in 2005 or 2006, tracks people and events from the assassination to the Watergate affair where many of the key players appeared again. This second edition draws on material recently released from the US National Archives to add chapters on Cuban American Watergate burglar Bernard Barker and his role in the Mafia, the CIA, and secret White House operations during the intervening years. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News)

Journey to the sun: Junípero Serra's dream and the founding of California

By Orfalea, Gregory

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.401 ORF

"The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest. The names of these missions ring through the history of California--San Diego, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, and San Francisco--and served as the epicenters of the arrival of Western civilization, where millions more would follow, creating the California we know today. Combining biography, European history, knowledge of Catholic doctrine, and anthropology, Journey to the Sun provides fresh perspective on America's creation story. Orfalea's poetic and incisive recounting of Serra's life shows how one man changed the future of California and in so doing affected the future of our nation"--

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Water to the angels: William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles

By Standiford, Les

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.494 STA

Documents the story of William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct, the largest public water project ever built, describing how it transformed a small desert city into a modern metropolis.