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History and Current Events March 2017
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| Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission by Bret BaierIn Three Days in January, political journalist Bret Baier (Fox News) details President Dwight Eisenhower's last three days in office. The transition to John F. Kennedy's administration came at a time when nuclear war seemed not just possible but (to many) imminent. |
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The home that was our country : a memoir of Syria
by Alia Malek
A senior staff writer at Al Jazeera America describes what life was like in her family’s home in Damascus through various political shifts and describes how the Arab Spring allowed her to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment, lost to them since 1970.
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| Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and... by Brad Ricca In 1917, a teenager Ruth Cruger disappeared in New York City, and traces of her whereabouts swiftly evaporated. Frustrated by the police detectives' failure to find Ruth, her father appealed to Grace Humiston, who had made a name for herself with her work for immigrants and the falsely accused, acquiring the nickname "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes." |
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