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History and Current Events September 2021 |
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| The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the... by Major General Mari K. EderWhat's inside: profiles of 15 barrier-breaking women whose contributions to the Allied war effort have been largely forgotten by history, accompanied by photos and firsthand accounts of their exploits.
Featuring: Alice Marble, a Grand Slam-winning tennis champion turned spy; Marion Armstrong Frieswyck, a cartographer whose maps aided U.S. military operations.
Read it for: a lively and propulsive chronicle befitting a thriller. |
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"They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice...
by Wesley Lowery
In "They Can't Kill Us All", Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery chronicles his odyssey reporting from U.S. cities where officers have killed unarmed black men, beginning with Ferguson, MO. Depicting family members, protesters, and activist leaders, he sheds light on the experiences and responses of individuals in each situation. The development of the #BlackLivesMatter movement also comes to life in this unbiased report, which draws on data collection and a clear understanding of the dangers facing police officers, in addition to historical perspectives on black-white community relations over a half-century.
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The history book
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
Presents a full-color global look at world-changing events in history and the themes that unite them.
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| New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred GallagherWhat it's about: From 1840-1920, women from all walks of life helped shape the culture and politics of the American West.
Why you should read it: Journalist Winifred Gallagher's richly detailed history offers fresh insights on the evolution of the suffragist movement.
Did you know? White women in 11 of the 14 Western states secured voting rights six years before the passage of the 19th Amendment. |
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The History of Jazz
by Ted Gioia
The History of Jazz, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive survey of jazz music from its origins until the current day. The book is designed for general readers and students, as well as those with more specialized interest in jazz and music history.
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Strongmen : Mussolini to the present
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and corruption, have found popular support even as they bring ruin to their countries.
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| Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff ManaughWhat it is: a thought-provoking six-century study on the role quarantine has played in human, animal, plant, and chemical history.
Topics include: the Black Death; COVID-19; space exploration; immigration; the "chocpocalypse."
Don't miss: the authors' well-researched and common-sense recommendations for how to navigate future quarantine scenarios. |
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The Viking heart : how Scandinavians conquered the world
by Arthur Herman
In this compelling historical narrative with cutting-edge archeological and DNA research, a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist chronicles how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America.
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Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights
by Erwin Chemerinsky
Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses.
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The Just : How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
by Jan Brokken
In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul. In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk, with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia -- chose to break his country's diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom through the ruse of issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curacao on the other side of the world...
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The Family Tree historical atlas of Germany
by James M. Beidler
Delve into your German heritage! This carefully curated collection of beautiful historical maps of Germany will help you sort out the mess that is German history. With these 100-plus full-color maps, you can view German border changes throughout the centuries, allowing you to find your German hometown and records of your ancestors.
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About time : a history of civilization in twelve clocks
by David Rooney
A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization"
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Any many more! Contact your librarian for more great books! |
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