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|  | California Missions by Anne Harler
From 1769 to 1823, Spanish missionaries came to California in the name of their monarchy and the Catholic church to colonize the area and convert the many Indian groups who lived there. Although the friars were ultimately unsuccessful, many of the distinctive (and beautiful) adobe missions that they designed, constructed, and built communities around still stand today. AUTHOR: Anne Harler
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | 9-11 by Noam Chomsky
Description not available.Presents a series of interviews conducted during the first month following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that discuss reactions to the attacks in the U.S. and abroad, U.S. foreign policy, and the new war on terrorism. AUTHOR: Noam Chomsky
PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
Journalist Dennis Covington documents the case of Glenn Summerford, arrested and tried for murdering his wife with rattlesnakes. On Sand Mountain, Covington found he discovered the similarities between himself and the devotees of snake-handling, strychnine-drinking religions so quickly it was disturbing to him. This book was voted by the Voice Literary Supplement one of the 25 Favorite Books of 1995. AUTHOR: Dennis Covington
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Daniel Chow, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Scherrill
Description not available.Corrie ten Boom's account of her amazing family's experiences during the German occupation of Holland reveals her indomitable Christian faith AUTHOR: Corrie Ten Boom, Daniel Chow, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Scherrill
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Still Fighting the Civil War by David R. Goldfield
In this sweeping narrative of the South from the Civil War to the present, noted historian David Goldfield contemplates the roots of southern memory and explains how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill. He candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and the Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and reify the events of those fated years. Goldfield also recounts how blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision has competed with more traditional perspectives. As Goldfield shows, the battle for southern history, and for the South, continues-in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region?s growing economic power and political influence, the outcome of this war is more than a historian?s preoccupation; it is of national importance. Integrating history and memory, religion, race, and gender, STILL FIGHTING THE CIVIL WAR will help newcomers, longtime residents, and curious outsiders alike attain a better understanding of the South and each other. AUTHOR: David R. Goldfield
PUBLISHER: Louisiana State University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Search for Modern China by Frederick Davidson, Jonathan D. Spence
Over 400 years of Chinese history--from the Ming dynasty to Mao--are recalled in Spence's narrative history. AUTHOR: Frederick Davidson, Jonathan D. Spence
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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