As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, you’ll want to stay inside to enjoy these fascinating history books publishing this month. From Lorissa Rinehart’s major biography of the first woman to hold a U.S. federal office to Jeffrey Kluger’s highly anticipated story of NASA’s Gemini program, you can’t go wrong with any of these history selections.
The first major biography of Jeannette Rankin, a groundbreaking suffragist, activist, and the first American woman to hold federal office.
A suffragist, peace activist, workers’ rights advocate, and champion of democratic reform who ran as a Republican, Rankin remained ever faithful to her beliefs, no matter the price she had to pay personally. In Winning the Earthquake, Lorissa Rinehart expertly recovers the compelling history behind this singular American hero, bringing her story back to life.
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Just in time to celebrate the monument’s 100th anniversary, A Biography of A Mountain combines history with reportage, bringing the complicated and nuanced story of Mt. Rushmore to life. From the land’s origins as sacred tribal ground to the expansion of the American West to the politicized present-day conflict over the site, Matthew Davis writes with sensitivity about the complex past and future of one of America’s most recognizable landmarks.
From the bestselling co-author of Apollo 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon.
Told with Jeffrey Kluger’s signature cinematic storytelling and in-depth research and interviews, Gemini is an edge-of-your-seat narrative chronicling the history of the least appreciated—and most groundbreaking—space program in American history. Finally, Gemini’s story will be told, and finally, we’ll learn the truth of how we landed on the moon.
In 2020, a bipartisan act of Congress mandated changing the names of nine military bases previously named for Confederate soldiers. Over the course of twenty months, the commission completed their mission, carefully combing through years of American history and hearing from tens of thousands of Americans from all walks of life. The commission ultimately chose ten Americans whose individual heroics reflect the collective best of all that America is and could be.
This is the inspiring story behind the ten American heroes whose names had been originally chosen, told by two members of the Naming Commission that selected them.
The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.
When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, she is faced with unsettling questions. She had been told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there her grandmother is in the photo, taken during her honeymoon, smiling as WWII rages on.
What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity shows what it is like to make choices against the tide of history—and reveals the fragility of truth, collective and personal.
Two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy’s thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything, including their lives, for science, country, and polar immortality. Now available in paperback.
A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of the bestselling video game series: Red Dead Redemption.
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as re-creations of history?
In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more. Colorful, fast-paced, and dramatic, Red Dead’s History sheds light on dark corners of the American past for gamers and history buffs alike. Now available in paperback.