• Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Biography • Winner, Francis Parkman Prize awarded by The Society of American Historians • Winner, Mark Lynton History Prize About the Book Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history. Though theirs may not be household names, [...]
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Riot and Remembrance by James S. Hirsch
About the Book “A profound, chilling, and heartbreaking contribution to American history.” — Boston Globe Before Rodney King, before the riots in Cincinnati, before Newark and Detroit and Watts, there was the Tulsa race war. On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a white elevator operator and a black delivery boy escalated into the [...]
Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
Mary Janis Cooke Newman ISBN:9780156033473 About the book: Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. [...]
The Women of the House by Jean Zimmerman
The Women of the House Jean Zimmerman ISBN:9780156032247 About the book: The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester [...]
Tattoo for a Slave by Hortense Calisher
Tattoo for a Slave Hortense Calisher ISBN:9780156032032 About the book: Although Hortense Calisher’s family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning family in the South still resonate with this prolific and widely acclaimed author, who in Tattoo for a Slave uncovers a part of history never before [...]
