Seidule, Ty

Summary: "In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SEI

Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AMB

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Contents: The Founding Fathers -- The Battle of New Orleans -- The Indian country -- The transcontinental railroad -- Grant and reconstruction -- Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century -- Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe -- The war in the Pacific -- The legacy of World War II -- Vietnam -- Writing in and about America -- War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973 AMB

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCH

Aldous, Richard

Summary: "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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Franklin, John Hope

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus, Giroux 2005

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Brown, David S. (David Scott)

Summary: "Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020

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Adams, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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Maltin, Leonard

Summary: Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books, an imprint of Paladin Communications 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALTIN, LEONARD MAL

Bailyn, Bernard

Summary: "A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking career and offers readers newinsights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BAI

Crais, Clifton C

Summary: A professor draws on his expertise as a historian to better understand his traumatic early life in New Orleans, marked by an alcoholic mother who tried to drown him, an absent father, his childhood amnesia, and family secrets.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAIS, CLIFTON CRA

Larson, Erik.

Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LAR

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Yalom, Irvin D.

Summary: "A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confrontsthe loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTON, BRUCE CAT
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 CAT

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Catton

Brookhiser, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRO

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

Summary: Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s. When owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street, meant the realization of dreams. When everyone knew everyone else on the block and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. The corner...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS GOO

Larson, Erik.

Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011

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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR
Call number: 943.086 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Larsen

Zinn, Howard

Summary: Biography of historian, activist, and author Howard Zinn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First-Run Features 2005

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOW

Makos, Adam

Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHE

Thomas, William G.

Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO