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Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Edward P. Kohn.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465013364.  Daedalus Item Code: 23387
 
According to some polls, as many as 15 percent of American voters sided with Barack Obama in the 2012 election because of his swift relief actions for those devastated by Hurricane Sandy. History ... (Read More)
 
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The House: The History of the House of Representatives
Robert V. Remini.
Publisher: Smithsonian.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061341113.  Daedalus Item Code: 23950
 
The U.S. House of Representatives has long played a central role in shaping the nation's destiny. This single-volume history from National Book Award winner Robert Remini, published in association ... (Read More)
 
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim al-Khalili.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594202797.  Daedalus Item Code: 31228
 
The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been obscured in the West, even though the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations preceded—and in many ways enabled—the European ... (Read More)
 
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How to Lose the Civil War
Bill Fawcett, ed.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061807275.  Daedalus Item Code: 23951
 
For four years in the mid-19th century, brother fought brother in the terrible conflict between the Union and the Confederacy, an epic historical drama indelibly marked by a remarkable cast of ... (Read More)
 
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Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France
Patricia Mainardi.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300101041.  Daedalus Item Code: 03978
 
In this lively interdisciplinary exploration of culture and society in early 19th-century France, illustrated with prints and paintings of the day, art historian Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was ... (Read More)
 
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I Wish I'd Been There, Book Two: European History
Byron Hollinshead & Theodore K. Rabb, eds.
Publisher: Doubleday/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780385519083.  Daedalus Item Code: 10491
 
Paul Kennedy, John Keegan, Ross King, Freeman Dyson, Katherine Duncan-Jones, and 15 other respected historians take readers to such key events in Western and European history as the signing of Magna ... (Read More)
 
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The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
Stephan Talty.
Publisher: Crown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307394040.  Daedalus Item Code: 12132
 
In a dual narrative pitting human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, the author of Empire of Blue Water and Mulatto America here tells the story of a mighty ... (Read More)
 
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
David O. Stewart.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416547495.  Daedalus Item Code: 13934
 
Here constitutional historian David Stewart, author of The Summer of 1787, offers a dramatic re-creation of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, who took over the presidency after Abraham ... (Read More)
 
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
James Bradley.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316008952.  Daedalus Item Code: 23346
 
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's ... (Read More)
 
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford.
Publisher: Ballantine.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780449904961.  Daedalus Item Code: 31279
 
"Beginning with a clever title and continuing throughout the book, [anthropologist Jack] Weatherford lists the tremendous contributions which have been made by the Indian civilizations of the ... (Read More)
 
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Daniel James Brown.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061348112.  Daedalus Item Code: 23953
 
In April 1846, 21-year-old Sarah Graves set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, ... (Read More)
 
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The Insurgent Barricade
Mark Traugott.
Publisher: California.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780520266322.  Daedalus Item Code: 24084
 
"To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. History and sociology professor Mark Traugott charts the ... (Read More)
 
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