Chatelain - History 1

“History offers no example where so much was accomplished in so short a time, or where so many events were crowded into the space of four years, in which the Navy was employed subduing a coast over ……続きを見る

**WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest genera……続きを見る

6 avril. Marseille ! Je revois avec le même plaisir que naguère le ciel, les montagnes, les vallées, les villes de la Provence. La Provence est toujours belle ; n’a-t-elle pas pour l’arroser un gran……続きを見る

Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation network……続きを見る

This thorough account of the South's efforts to hold the Mississippi River is "fast-paced, easy to read, and well supported by archival research" ( The Civil War Monitor). Most studies of the Missis……続きを見る

From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as th……続きを見る

Our Cosmic Ancestors is a dynamic work unraveling the messages of universal astronauts and decoding the symbols and visual mathematics they have left for us in the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the……続きを見る

An often overlooked aspect of the American Civil War was the effort by the Confederate Navy to defend the Mississippi River in 1861 and 1862. Confederate officials struggled to build a navy from not……続きを見る

In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chate……続きを見る