Tag: History
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MUHAMMAD, THE WORLD-CHANGER by MOHAMAD JEBARA
I was very eager to read this book. It is so well-researched and easy to read. The topic is one I have long been interested in and yet everything I read was contradictory. Not this. I am quite certain Muslim academics knew and understood the subject of Muhammad, the rest of us were a bit…
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MAIDEN VOYAGES by SIAN EVANS
MAGNIFICENT OCEAN LINERS AND THE WOMEN WHO TRAVELED AND WORKED ABOARD THEM Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. Up until the twentieth century, travel across the Atlantic was done on great ocean liners. Like the Ritz Carlton of the sea. Amenities…
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In the Shadow of the Empress by Nancy Goldstone
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. That is the blurb on this very interesting look at this Empress and her daughters. And with Nancy Goldstone as the author I knew this would…
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Ethel Rosenberg An American Tragedy by ANNE SEBBA
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba’s moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In a case that shook the nation and left a lot of people wondering what the truth was and how it could involve electrocuting a woman…
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THE GLORIOUS GUINNESS GIRLS by EMILY HOURICAN
Everyone has hear of the Guinness family but I’ve never known much about the girls. This clears all of that up and very well. This was a book of truths and an imagined tale. The author has done her research and this was a joy to read. These girls seemed to have it all. The…
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VALCOUR-The 1776 Campaign That Saved The Cause of Liberty by JACK KELLY
The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America’s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain’s sea power. Valcour is about the people involved in the 1776 three-day battle of the fledgling American Colonies against the pesky Brits. In the summer…
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The Lost Carousel of Provence by Juliet Blackwell
An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all in a sweeping and expressive story from the New York Times bestselling author of Letters from Paris . Cady Drake had a rough start in life. Orphaned and shuffled through the foster system she lucked out the day…
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BOOM TOWN by SAM ANDERSON
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis A lively and introspective look into Oklahoma City, where colorful city officials business leaders, artists, and sports fans have turned an unassuming Southwestern city into a thriving metropolis with…
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Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford
“Once old Mastuh be dead, you be workin’ in the fields just like the rest of ’em. That day comin’ soon.” Based on little-known true events and brought vividly to life by Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist Jack Ford, here is an astonishing account of a time when the traditions of the Old South still…
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The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book by Jim Jordan ( University of Georgia Press)
n 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades…
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