Search | Shaw Island

Call number

520 B

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2005

Collection

Call number

973.7 G

1776

by David McCullough

Hardcover, 2005

Collection

Call number

973.3 MC

John Adams

by David McCullough

Hardcover, 2001

Collection

Call number

BIO ADAMS

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond

Paper Book, 1997

Collection

Call number

303.4 DIA

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

Hardcover, 2004

Collection

Call number

304.2 DIA

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2015

Collection

Call number

940.4 LAR

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

Hardcover, 2005

Collection

Call number

970.01 M

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann

Hardcover, 2018

Collection

Call number

976.6 GRA

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Paperback, 2016

Collection

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Hardcover, 1978

Collection

Call number

930 T

By Bill Bryson - At Home: A Short History of Private Life (12.2.2009)

by Bill Bryson

Hardcover, 2009

Collection

Call number

643.1 BRY

Fear: Trump in the White House

by Bob Woodward

Hardcover, 2018

Collection

Call number

973.933 WOO

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

943.086 LAR

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson

Hardcover, 2003

Collection

Call number

364.15 L

The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester

Hardcover, 1998

Collection

Call number

423 WIN

These Truths: A History of the United States

by Jill Lepore

Hardcover, 2018

Collection

Call number

973 LEP

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

940.2 GRE

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2013

Collection

Call number

973.91 GOO

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

by Simon Winchester

Hardcover, 2003

Collection

Call number

551.21 W

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

Hardcover, 1995

Collection

Call number

523.62 SOB

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

Hardcover, 2013

Collection

Call number

940.3 MAC

One Summer: America. 1927

by Bill Bryson

Hardcover, 2013

Collection

Call number

973.91 BRY

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

944.361 MCC

A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

930.1 MAC

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

by Candice Millard

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

973.8 MIL

The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell

Hardcover, 2008

Collection

Call number

974.088 V

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

Paperback, 2003

Collection

Call number

940.3 M

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Hardcover, 2010

Collection

Call number

940.54 HIL

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir

Hardcover, 2000

Collection

Call number

BIO ELEANOR

1421: The Year China Discovered America

by Gavin Menzies

Hardcover, 2003

Collection

Call number

910.951 M

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

Hardcover, 2005

Collection

Call number

978.032 E

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 2018

Collection

New Bio

Call number

BIO GOO

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy)

by Rick Atkinson

Hardcover, 2013

Collection

Series

Liberation Trilogy

Call number

940.54 ATK

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham

Hardcover, 2008

Collection

Call number

BIO JACKSON

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

by Tom Reiss

Hardcover, 2012

Collection

Call number

944.04 REI

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

by China Mieville

Hardcover, 2017

Collection

Call number

947.084 MIE

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy

Hardcover, 2017

Collection

Call number

940.54 MUN

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Hardcover, 2003

Collection

Call number

BIO FRANKLIN

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown

Hardcover, 2013

Collection

Northwest

Call number

NWC 979 BRO

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

by Russell Shorto

Paperback, 2005

Collection

Call number

974.7 SHO

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

by Rick Atkinson

Paperback, 2007

Collection

Series

Liberation Trilogy

Call number

940.54 ATK

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Hardcover, 2000

Collection

Call number

385 AMBR

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong

Hardcover, 1994

Collection

Call number

291.2 ARM

Unfamiliar Fishes

by Sarah Vowell

Hardcover, 2011

Collection

Call number

996.9 VOW

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

by Adrian Goldsworthy

Hardcover, 2006

Collection

Call number

BIO CAESAR

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

Hardcover, 2007

Collection

Call number

951.90 H

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1814-1848

by Daniel Walker Howe

Hardcover, 2007

Collection

The Oxford History of the United States, Oxford Histories

Series

Call number

973.5 H

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

by Thomas Cahill

Hardcover, 2003

Collection

Series

Hinges of History

Call number

938 CAH

The greatest generation

by Tom Brokaw

Hardcover, 1998

Collection