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Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben

by Josh Trujillo
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, biography, american history, american revolution, graphic novel, lgbtq, von steuben, coverguess unavailable
Call number
973.3092

On Savage Shores: How indigenous Americans discovered Europe

by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, world history, native american history, european history, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
970.004/97

We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope

by Steven Charleston
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, philosophy, spirituality, native american, early reviewer, hb, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
191.089

The Wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, age of sail, nautical, shipwreck, mutiny, adventure, hb
Call number
910.9164

Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

by Alexandra Petri
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, american history, humor, essays
Call number
973.02

Kingdom of Characters: The language revolution that made China modern

by Jing Tsu
Paperback, 2022
Tags
history, unread, china, chinese language, languages, chinese, tpb
Call number
495.11/1

Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a bright continent

by Dipo Faloyin
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, world history, africa, african history, geopolitics, sociology, hb, unread
Call number
960.33

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

by Pekka Hämäläinen
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, american history, native american history, hb, unread
Call number
970.004

Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World

by Ryan Britt
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, star trek, history of television, hb
Call number
791.45

Proving Ground: The untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer

by Kathy Kleiman
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, history of technology, history of computing, women's history, eniac, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
004.092/2

Secret City: The hidden history of gay Washington

by James Kirchick
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, american history, lgbtq, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
306.76/6097530904

Let me be Frank: A book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren't supposed to do

by Tracy Dawson
Paperback, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, history, women's history, gender, hb
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
306.77/8

The Border: A journey around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage

by Erika Fatland
Ebook, 2021
Tags
history, travel, eastern europe, asia, russia, north korea, china, mongolia, kazakhstan, azerbaijan, georgia — 11 more, belarus, lithuania, poland, latvia, estonia, finland, norway, arctic, northeast passage, ebook, translated
Collection
E-books
Call number
914.7

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War

by Howard W. French
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, african history, hb, unread
Call number
960.22

The 1619 Project: A new origin story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
unread, history, american history, african american history, hb
Call number
973

Four Hundred Souls: A community history of African America, 1619-2019

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, american history, african american history, essays, hb
Call number
973/.0496073

Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age

by Annalee Newitz
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, anthropology, archaeology, cities, çatalhöyük, pompeii, angkor, cahokia, hb
Call number
930.1

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

by Christina Thompson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, world history, polynesia, pacific ocean, polynesian history, tpb, unread
Call number
996

The Deviant's War: The homosexual vs. the United States of America

by Eric Cervini
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, american history, lgbtq, frank kameny, tpb
Call number
306.76/6092B

Eat the Buddha: Life and death in a Tibetan town

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2020
Tags
china, tibet, history, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
951/.38

Caste: The origins of our discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, hb, unread
Call number
305.5/122

South to Freedom: Runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War

by Alice L. Baumgartner
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, african american history, underground railroad, mexican history, hb
Call number
306.3/62

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, african american history, women's history, hb, unread
Call number
305.48/896073

The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast

by Andrew Blum
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
meteorology, history, weather, hb
Call number
551.63

Lakota America: A new history of Indigenous power

by Pekka Hämäläinen
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
history, american history, native american history, lakota, hb
Call number
970.980

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
history, history of technology, women's history, internet history, hb, signed copy, history of women in tch
Call number
004.092/2B

Queer: A graphic history

by Meg-John Barker
Paperback, 2016
Tags
history, queer theory, lgbtq, graphic novel, tpb, unread
Series
Barker and Scheele's Graphic Guides
Call number
306.76/6

The Silk Roads: A new history of the world

by Peter Frankopan
Paperback, 2016
Tags
history, world history, asia, tpb, couldn't finish
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
909

Unmentionable: The Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners

by Therese Oneill
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
humor, history, women's history, victorian, hb
Collections
Jane's, Previously Owned
Call number
305.4209034

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, african american history, black women did that, space, space program, history of computing, women's history, wwii, early reviewer, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
510.92/520973

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars

by Nathalia Holt
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, space program, history of technology, women's history, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
629.4072

Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that explain everything about the world

by Tim Marshall
Paperback, 2015
Tags
geography, history, maps, tpb, unread
Series
Politics of Place (1)
Call number
320.12

SPQR: A history of ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, ancient history, ancient rome, hb
Call number
937

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia

by Michael Booth
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
travel, history, scandinavia, norway, sweden, denmark, finland, iceland, hb
Call number
948.071

March: Book Two

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2015
Tags
history, american history, african american history, graphic novel, tpb
Series
March (2)
Call number
973.92092

1177 BC: The year civilization collapsed

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
history, bronze age, ancient history, archaeology, tpb
Call number
930.1/56

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East

by Gerard Russell
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
religion, middle east, druze, zoroastrians, mandeans, yazidi, copts, samaritans, kalasha, history, hb
Call number
200.956

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

by Russell Shorto
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, netherlands, amsterdam, tpb
Call number
949.2

Second Avenue Caper: When goodfellas, divas, and dealers plotted against the plague

by Joyce Brabner
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
jane's, unread, lgbtq, history, hiv, aids, graphic novel, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
362.19697/9200207

Gay is Good: The life and letters of gay rights pioneer Franklin Kameny

by Frank Kameny
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
unread, lgbtq, history, letters, frank kameny, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
323.3/264

The Girls of Atomic City: The untold story of the women who helped win World War II

by Denise Kiernan
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, american history, wwii, manhattan project, women's history, oral history, tpb
Call number
976.873

On Paper: The everything of its two-thousand-year history

by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, paper, sadly there is a kindle edition, tpb
Call number
676.09

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paperback, 2013
Tags
religion, scientology, history, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
299.936

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history, us history, twentieth century, hb
Call number
973.91

March: Book One

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2013
Tags
history, african american history, american history, civil rights movement, graphic novel, tpb
Series
March (1)
Call number
973.92092

The Story of Spanish

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
language, history, spanish, spanish language, history of spanish, hb
Call number
460.9

Baby Meets World: Suck, smile, touch, toddle

by Nicholas Day
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, psychology, history, human biology, child development, hb
Call number
155.42/2

Capital of the World: The race to host the United Nations

by Charlene Mires
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history, world history, united nations, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
341.2309
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