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|  | The Great Bridge by David McCullough
This work details the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn across the East River. Not only does the author survey the construction of this amazing structure, he places the event within its historical and cultural context, offering a story of life in New York City toward the close of the 19th century. John Augustus Roebling, a foreign-born engineer, took on this most ambitious of his projects to date, after having built suspension bridges in several other U.S. cities. His son, Washington Augustus, took over after his father's death in 1869. McCullough's book was published in 1983, in celebration of the centennial of the bridge's completion. AUTHOR: David McCullough
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima, Paul Wilson
A collection of essays that document 50 years in Czech history. The autobiographical essays by the famed Czech author Klima include narratives of his internment as a young boy in a Nazi concentration camp, his development as a writer, and his friendship and association with Vaclav Havel and Milan Kundera. The collection also includes a long critical essay on the relationship between certain painful experiences in the life of Kafka and his literary work. AUTHOR: Ivan Klima, Paul Wilson
PUBLISHER: Granta
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Fever in Salem by Laurie Winn Carlson
This book considers a possible medical explanation for the symptoms that afflicted some residents in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s. These symptoms were attributed to the practice of witchcraft, causing a hysteria which resulted in the trials and executions of a score of women. AUTHOR: Laurie Winn Carlson
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Stories from Where We Live by Sara St. Antoine
STORIES FROM WHERE WE LIVE THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN PRAIRIE gathers the literature that best conveys the region's natural heritage. Readers will find songs and narratives from Plains Indians, stories of nineteenth century settlers (including freed slaves) and contemporary stories, essays, and poems about coyotes, meadowlarks, farm life, wild places in the city, and efforts to restore native prairie. Dip into this book and you'll hear the whistle of prairie dogs, witness the dance of sandhill cranes, catch the white flash of a pronghorn's tail, and revisit the massive buffalo. AUTHOR: Sara St. Antoine
PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Slavery by Richard Ross Watkins
Since the beginning of civilization there have been slaves. Men and women, young and old, black and white--from China to Brazil and everywhere in between--millions have been enslaved. In fact, even you could have been a slave, if you had been born in the wrong place and time. In Ancient Babylon, you might have been enslaved as punishment for a crime. In Africa, you might have been sold into slavery in the New World. In Greece, you could have been kidnapped by pirates and then auctioned off as a slave. In England, your parents might have sold you into slavery to pay off a debt. In China, if your parents were slaves, so were you. Today in Pakistan, you could be forced, along with thousands of other children, to stitch together soccer balls for twelve hours a day. Whatever path led to slavery, it is a difficult part of our global human history--and on that still exists in some countries. Richard Watkins traces the countless journeys and trials of slaves around the world and throughout time. Watkins not only chronicles the terrible legacy of human oppression, he also champions those who fought against it and helped shape slave-free nations for future generations to inherit. AUTHOR: Richard Ross Watkins
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Threshold of Terror by Rodney Allen
The crucial twenty-four hours between the 9th and 10th of August 1792 led to the fall and execution of the French king and set in motion the chain of events that culminated in the Reign of Terror and the deaths of more than 40,000 people brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined. Interwoven into this brilliantly detailed study are contemporary illustrations and eyewitness accounts, which have never before appeared in English, of the events the Reign of Terror by contemporaries, including two Swiss Guards, a Swiss grenadier, a French aristocrat and a National Guard who was the queen`s foster brother. This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the most remarkable and important events in European history. AUTHOR: Rodney Allen
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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