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|  | Zapata's Disciple by Martin Espada
In his first collection of essays, award-winning poet Martin Espada turns his fierce critical eye toward a broad range of urgent political and cultural issues. With the same insight and integrity displayed in his poetry, Espada chronicles many struggles of the Latino community: the backlash against Latino immigrants and the Spanish language, the borders of racism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. AUTHOR: Martin Espada
PUBLISHER: South End Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, LIPSTICK TRACES is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, LIPSTICK TRACES tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself. AUTHOR: Greil Marcus
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Far Appalachia
The New River winds for 330 miles through the hills of Appalachia. Using this natural vehicle as the basis for his travelogue cum cultural profile, Adams penetrates the dense Americana found along the banks of the river.
CATEGORY: History
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 | To the Gates of Richmond by Dick Estell, Nelson Runger, Stephen W. Sears
To the Gates of Richmond charts the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, General George McClellan?s grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan battled his way toward Richmond, but then Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces. In seven days, Lee drove the cautious McClellan out, thereby changing the course of the war. Intelligent and well researched, To the Gates of Richmond vividly recounts one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. AUTHOR: Dick Estell, Nelson Runger, Stephen W. Sears
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Pocahontas by Nancy Polette
Description not available.An introduction to the life of the young seventeenth-century Indian woman who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown. AUTHOR: Nancy Polette
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Battle of Wits by Stephen Budiansky
Description not available.Working from freshly declassified documents, the author chronicles the exciting story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Stephen Budiansky
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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