David J : 1790 books
Left Bank of the Hudson
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers,...
by David J. Code
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that...
by David J. Lovato
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
A collection of four short stories. Read the transmissions of an astronaut en route to an alien planet in "The Journal." Join an FBI agent as he attempts to track a killer using spontaneous human combustion to murder his victims in "The Fire Inside." Discover things about human...
Halloween
The History of America's Darkest Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Wonderfully well-written, outrageous, and provocative." — Booklist.
"Entertaining … and scholarly … Like a bag of Halloween candy, the book is a lot of fun." — Boston Globe.
"Fans of cultural history will devour each chapter … like a toothsome treat." — Christian...
Liberty and Sexuality
The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow’s stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America’s battle for the right to choose
In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue...
Waging War
The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
An “ambitious...deep history and a thoughtful inquiry into how the constitutional system of checks and balances has functioned when it comes to waging war and making peace” (The Washington Post)—here is the full, compelling account of this never-ending debate.
The Constitution states...
by David J. Libby
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular...
Kentucky and the Great War
World War I on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From five thousand children marching in a parade, singing, "Johnnie get your hoe.... Mary dig your row," to communities banding together to observe Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays, Kentuckians were loyal supporters of their country during the First World War. Kentucky had one...
Red Brethren
The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that...
by David J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
An Apology For all the irritations Ive caused you,
Im sorry; in a mirror,
My eyes might glisten with tears of fear and remorse.
For being an onerous burden upon you,
Im sorry; in a drama,
Id movingly exit, the back of my hand on my brow ...
It is no secret...
by David J. Lovato
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Two people meet, fall in love, fall out, and fall apart, left wondering what to do with the pieces that remain. A collection of narrative poetry.
A War of Frontier and Empire
The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts—one fought between the Spanish and the allied...
Black Banners of ISIS
The Roots of the New Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A medieval Islam historian’s incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group’s deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to...
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
From "Solo" to Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader
When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by...