May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · History
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Greenhills
May 13, 2013
Mills, Debbie.
Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., c2013.
127 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
The Resettlement Administration -- The plan -- The greenbelt -- The buildings -- Family life -- Civic life -- The cooperatives -- Public art and culture -- Competing visions.
Gerald R. Ford : an honorable life
May 6, 2013
Cannon, James M., 1918-2011.
482 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes index.
A crisis of the regime -- Resolve -- Transformation -- Challenges -- Advancing -- Advancing -- Passage -- Revelations -- Confirmations -- Conflicted -- Proposition -- Taking charge -- Reaction -- The pardon -- Testifying -- Managing -- Progress -- Challenges -- Ford's way -- Initiatives -- Vietnam -- The campaign begins -- Nomination -- Election -- Epilogue.
Marshall County Messenger : established 1902, a newspaper from Kingston, Oklahoma
May 3, 2013
Herndon, Glynda Brown.
Calera, Okla. : Bryan County Genealogy Library and Archives, 2008-
v. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Cover title.
[v. 1.] June 24, 1926-June 23, 1927 (film #1060-35)
Durant, 1872-1990
May 2, 2013
Milligan, James C.
Durant, Okla. : Bryan County Heritage Association, 1990.
161 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
A history Atoka County, Oklahoma
May 2, 2013
Underwood, William Henry.
Calera, Okla. : Bryan County Heritage Association, 1997.
213, [1] p. : map ; 28 cm.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.), University of Oklahoma: A history of Atoka County. 1931.
The war below : the story of three submarines that battled Japan
May 2, 2013
Scott, James (James M.)
viii, 426 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
The "story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the wars top submarines--Silversides, Drum, and Tang--[the author] takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service"--Dust jacket flap.
The real history of the Vietnam War : a new look at the past
May 2, 2013
Axelrod, Alan, 1952-
New York : Sterling, c2013.
xi, 371 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Series statement from front flap of jacket.
People of the great Viet -- Toward the twilight of empire -- From World War to dirty war -- Propping up the domino -- The torch is passed -- Victor Charlie -- The peace candidate -- An inch at a time -- Main force -- The Tet paradox -- "The whole world is watching" -- Vietnamization and demoralization -- They were all the enemy -- Tricky Dick -- Decline and fall -- Collateral damage -- Lessons learned, lessons unlearned.
"Examines the history of Vietnam leading up to the war, investigates the reasons for the conflict, looks at the war's escalation and progression (or lack thereof), and explores its repercussions then and now"--Provided by publisher.
The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
May 1, 2013
Kirsch, Jonathan, 1949-
New York : Liveright Pub., c2013.
xv, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
The boy avenger -- pt. 1. From Hanover to Paris. The day Hitler dined alone -- The prodigal son -- Tout va bien -- Special handling -- pt. 2. Incident on the Rue de Lille. "So that the world would not ignore it" -- The blood flag -- Higher powers -- Phony war -- pt. 3. Paris to Berlin. In the belly of the beast -- Paragraph one hundred seventy-five -- Grynszpan's ghost -- The exterminating angel -- Chronology.
Son of a gambling man : my journey from a casino family to the governor's mansion
May 1, 2013
Miller, Bob, 1945-
xiv, 251 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
A history of Trenton, 1679-1929 : two hundred and fifty years of a notable town with links in four centuries
April 30, 2013
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1929.
xx, 1115 p. : ill., plates, maps ; 24 cm.
"Early Trenton imprints and maps, compiled by Clayton L. Traver": p. 1041-[1049].
Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster, ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620.
April 30, 2013
Steele, Ashbel, 1796-
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1970.
416 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Reprint of the 1857 ed.
The Scots : a photohistory
April 26, 2013
MacKinnon, Murray.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
224 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Originally published: 2003.
Twilight of the Romanovs : a photographic odyssey across Imperial Russia 1855-1918
April 26, 2013
Blom, Philipp, 1970-
London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
248 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.
The origins of the Irish
April 26, 2013
Mallory, J. P., author.
London : Thames & Hudson, [2013]
320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
1. The origins of Ireland -- 2. First colonists -- 3. First farmers -- 4. Beakers and metal -- 5. The rise of the warriors -- 6. The Iron Age -- 7. The native version -- 8. Skulls, blood and genes -- 9. The evidence of language -- 10. The origins of the Irish.
Boy 30529 : a memoir
April 26, 2013
Weinberg, Felix Jiri, author.
xix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House
April 25, 2013
Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.
New York : Penguin Books, c2005.
xxiv, 168 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: New York : G.W. Carleton & Co., 1868.
A seamstress and friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln describes her days as a slave and her memories of the Lincolns.
The coup : 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations
April 25, 2013
Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940-
New York, N.Y. : New Press, 2013.
xxiii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.
Chronology -- Leading personalities -- Oil nationalization -- Anglo-Iranian negotiations -- The Coup -- Legacy.
"A history of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran and its aftermath"--Provided by publisher.
Defiant brides : the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married
April 24, 2013
Rubin Stuart, Nancy, 1944-
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2013.
xvi, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Monte Cassino : ten armies in Hell
April 23, 2013
Caddick-Adams, Peter, 1960-
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
xvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Preface Pub., 2012.
Roads to Cassino -- An Italian winter -- France fights on -- A very British way of war -- Blood and guts -- How to destroy a monastery -- The empire strikes back -- Man versus nature -- Kiwis at Cassino -- Poland the brave -- Winning Cassino -- Trouble in the Liri -- Pursuit from Cassino -- Roads to Rome -- Roads from Rome.
The last battle : when U.S. and German soldiers joined forces in the waning hours of World War II in Europe
April 23, 2013
Harding, Stephen, 1952-
vii, 223 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Photography and the American Civil War
April 23, 2013
Rosenheim, Jeff, compiler.
vii, 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The village : 400 years of Beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village
April 23, 2013
Strausbaugh, John.
New York, NY : Ecco, c2013.
xiv, 624 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
From the beginning through the "Golden Age." Bossen Bouwerie ; A magnet for misfits ; The first bohemians ; The restless Nineties ; The bohemians' neighbors ; The "Golden Age" begins ; 1913 ; The Provincetown Players ; The Golden Age wanes ; The next wave -- The dry decade, the Red decade, World War II. The Prohibition years ; The Coney Island of the soul ; The Red decade ; The wrong place for the right people ; Swag was our welfare -- The Greenwich Village renaissance. A refuge in the Age of anxiety ; The "New York School" ; Duchamp, Cage, and the theory of pharblongence ; Bebop ; The Beat Generation ; Pull my daisy ; Village voices ; Standing up to Moses and the Machine ; Off-off-Broadway ; The folk music scene ; From folk to rock ; Lenny Bruce and Valerie Solanas ; The radical '60s ; The Lion's Head -- The last hurrah. Prelude to the Stonewall Uprising ; Stonewall ; Village celebrities of the 1970s ; After Stonewall ; Art in the junkyard ; The 1980s and AIDS.
"A lively anecdotal history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood, from the 1600s to the present"--Front jacket flap.
Front row seat : a photographic portrait of the presidency of George W. Bush
April 23, 2013
Draper, Eric, 1964-
xiv, 226 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 x 32 cm.
The beginning -- Life in the bubble -- Family -- The western White House -- 9/11 -- War president -- To the world -- Sprint to the finish.
Kennesaw Mountain : Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
April 22, 2013
Hess, Earl J.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.
xvi, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
The road to Kennesaw -- Kolb's Farm -- Sherman decides to strike -- The Fifteenth Corps attack -- The Fourth Corps attack -- The Fourteenth Corps attack -- The residue of a long day -- Along the Kennesaw line -- Flanking -- Conclusion -- Orders of Battle -- Appendix: Kennesaw after the war.
July 1914 : countdown to war
April 22, 2013
McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
xviii, 461 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Sarajevo : Sunday, 28 June 1914 -- Reactions. Vienna : anger, not sympathy ; St. Petersburg : no quarter given ; Paris and London : unwelcome interruption ; Berlin : sympathy and impatience -- Countdown. The Count Hoyos mission to Berlin : Sunday-Monday, 5-6 July ; War council in Vienna (I) : Tuesday, 7 July ; Radio silence : 8-17 July ; Enter Sazonov : Saturday, 18 July ; War council in Vienna (II) : Sunday, 19 July ; Poincaré meets the Tsar : Monday, 20 July ; Sazonov's threat : Tuesday, 21 July ; Champagne summit : Wednesday-Thursday, 22-23 July ; Anti-ultimatum and ultimatum : Thursday, 23 July ; Sazonov strikes : Friday, 24 July ; Russia, France, and Serbia stand firm : Saturday, 25 July ; Russia prepares for war : Sunday, 26 July ; The Kaiser returns : Monday, 27 July ; "You have got me into a fine mess" : Tuesday, 28 July ; "O will not be responsible for a monstrous slaughter!" : Wednesday, 29 July ; Slaughter it is : Thursday, 30 July ; Last Chance Saloon : Friday, 31 July ; "Now you can do what you want" : Saturday, 1 August ; Britain wakes up to the danger : Sunday, 2 August ; Sir Edward Grey's big moment : Monday, 3 August ; World war : no going back : Tuesday, 4 August -- The question of responsibility.
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