🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
Downed Airmen and the French Underground
In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, ho...
Paul "Bear" Bryant and the 1971 Season of Change
This study of a watershed year in Bear Bryant's legendary football career shows the potential for sports history to educate us about the broader cultu...
The Fenoterol Story
Dramatic and topical, Adverse Reactions tells the story of the fenoterol controversy, a major medical scandal some 15 years ago involving the asthma d...
The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reaso...
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Out...
Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that r...
Learning about America from Starbucks
Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs t...
Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ
In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. Th...
Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture...
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan "Yes, we can"-in the form "S, Se Puede!"-winning many labor victories, securing...
An Insider's View of Republican Decision Making 1968-1972
The Environmental Protection Agency was established as an independent federal agency in December 1970 to coordinate government action on behalf of the...
Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s
Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion...
Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami s Virginia Key
Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Hariette V. Moore Award Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction In May 1945, activists st...
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African ...
...
The Life and Times of an American Business Icon
Brilliant, brave, and willing to defy conventional wisdom, Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel during its years of explosive growth, is on the shortlist of A...
Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991
Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme C...
A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
"Remember, you are not going out there to start a war," Rear Admiral Frank Johnson reminded Commander Pete Bucher just prior to the maiden voyage of t...
An Annotated Bibliography
Not long after becoming public health concerns in the 1980s, HIV and AIDS were featured in a number of works of fiction, though such titles were writt...
Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America
Goodwin examines the jokes, language, and behavior that allow gay men to identify and communicate with one another. He identifies how these behaviors ...
Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala
"Members of the Guatemalan army abducted Maritza Urrutia after she took her son to school one morning in 1992. [book title] describes her ordeal. Afte...
The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies ...
This student-friendly text provides a detailed and up-to-date assessment of Japan's foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices th...
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how...
An American City in Black and White
Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.” —Kevin Boyle, author...
A Reader on Athletics and Barrio Life
For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and profes...
A Quest for Normalcy
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so we...
The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas
This intriguing biography recounts the life of the legendary Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, revealing his true role in the development of Las Vegas and debu...
Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto
The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated o...
Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer
From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Ho...
A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984
Even at the time it was announced near the end of the first term of the Reagan administration, such luminaries as William Safire mischaracterized the ...
The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement
To understand border enforcement and the shape it has taken, it is imperative to examine a groundbreaking Border Patrol operation begun in 1993 in El ...
The Harry Dexter White Spy Case
Armed with a wealth of new information, Craig examines the controversial 1948 allegations that Communist spies had penetrated the American government,...
A Handbook for the Profession
Since it was first published in 1980, Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession has become a classic reference in the field. In the fourth editi...
A Brief History of the CIA
THE HIDDEN HAND Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has played an outsized role in the political life of the United States, w...
Into the Heart of the CIA
The Ghosts of Langley is the story of spymasters, their minions, and the ways in which the Central Intelligence Agency changed the world we see. This ...
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience i...
Energy Markets and Political Strategies
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the ...
The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East Africa
On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a pi...
Southern Student Activism in the 1960s
A “brilliant, comprehensive collection” of scholarly essays on the importance and wide-ranging activities of southern student activism in the 1960...