My favorite Civil War historian describes his favorite books of American historyThomas E. RicksForeign Policy
Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan) 神学大全(从第二,第三部分和补充,通过翻译后选择英文多明尼加省父亲和修订由丹尼尔J. Sullivan公司) Volume 21 第21卷 Dante Alighieri ...
Yes, I forgot to mention I already have a second part for “The Adventures of Patti and Barci: The City of Cats.” The next book is “The Havana Forest.” I plan to write several books for this series, I just love these characters and I have so much fun with them. Thanks for vis...
Beloved, one of her most celebrated books, was written in 1987 and set in 1873, after the end of the American Civil War. Our protagonists are former slave Sethe and her teenage daughter Denver. Their home is haunted by a ghost which they believe to be that of Sethe’s own eldest daug...
The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. “Well researched and eloquently presented.”—The Atlantic * “It’s not a matter of if but when: A civil war is on the way...In a time of torment, this is a book well worth reading.”—
You Are Here: Connecting Flights is a series of interconnected stories (a different one per chapter) about 12 Asian-American kids at the international terminal of a major airport. We follow each kid as they deal with microaggressions, disdain, and outright racism. This collection was edited by...
“As a second-generation Chinese American woman from San Francisco Chinatown,” Professor Emeritus Judy Yung writes in the introduction to her book, “I grew up in the 1950s with very little understanding of my own historical background.” ...
‘Where did you hear about all this?’ And that’s why she put her foot down saying, ‘You will become a communist member for certain.’ I probably would have because I have a basic sense of the society being unjust and also I have an anger about being treated like a second-class...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson Read expert recommendations “It’s about the period of American history between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the beginning of the American Civil War. (Note that in the UK, the...
Jodie, for example, the narrator of No Mama No, having given birth to a second son, finds herself not just feeling no love for the child but actively repelled by him: “that rather old aubergine they had thrust at me in the name of motherhood.” With one son still a needy toddler ...