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|  | Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene J. Francillon
This work presents a comprehensive analysis of the Japanese aircraft industry and its products between the late thirties and the dawn of the nuclear age. AUTHOR: Rene J. Francillon
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Weird History 101 by John R. Stephens
Author John Richard Stephens reveals 85 true stories behind some of history's most fascinating events -- by uncovering rare documents, eyewitness accounts, and contemporary descriptions of episodes ranging from Viking funerals to the Vietnam war. It includes: - A Native American woman's bloodcurdling account of Custer's Last Stand. - Walt Whitman's vivid description of President Lincoln's assassination. - A kidnapped African's report on the tragedy of life as a prisoner on a slave ship bound for the Americas. - Passengers' terrified descriptions of the sinking of the Titanic. - Eyewitness accounts of being captured by bloodthirsty pirates. Find these along with dozens of other eye-opening, entertaining looks behind the dull and dusty stories of conventional history. AUTHOR: John R. Stephens
PUBLISHER: Adams Media Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Allen Jay by Janice Lee Porter, Brill
Description not available.Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad AUTHOR: Janice Lee Porter, Brill
PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik, Stephen Toulmin
The life and culture of Hapsburg, Vienna before World War I--the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. AUTHOR: Allan Janik, Stephen Toulmin
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Empire of the Bay by Peter C. Newman
Description not available.Chronicles the exploration and settlement of a company that is three centuries old and worth six-billion dollars. AUTHOR: Peter C. Newman
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 by David T. Gleeson
The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the Solid South. Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South. AUTHOR: David T. Gleeson
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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