History and Current Events
March 2025
Recent Releases
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest...
by Bennett Parten

Historian Bennett Parten's illuminating debut offers fresh insights on General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War, particularly noting the ways the military campaign impacted more than 20,000 formerly enslaved people who joined it. 
Chokepoints : American power in the age of economic warfare
by Edward Fishman

A gripping account of America's shift to economic warfare details how U.S. leaders harnessed financial and technological power to confront authoritarian regimes, reshape globalization and create an economic arms race that redefines global alliances and tensions.
Presidents at war : how World War II shaped a generation of presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
by Steven M. Gillon

A bestselling author examines what John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush learned from World War II and how they applied it to Cold War policy that changed America, and the world, forever.
The folly of realism : how the West deceived itself about Russia and betrayed Ukraine
by Alexander S. Vindman

A national security expert argues that Western indecision and short-sightedness enabled Russia's return to imperialism, culminating in the brutal invasion of Ukraine. The author proposes a long-term, values-based approach to counteract Russian expansionism and uphold liberal democracy.
The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts
by Loren Grush

Presents the true story of America's first female astronauts and how they fought to enter STEM fields, endured claustrophobic and sexist media attention, underwent rigorous survival training and prepared for years.
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes

MSNBC host and bestselling author Chris Hayes' thought-provoking latest examines the sociopolitical impacts of attention capitalism, which commodifies our attention spans to "command fortunes, win elections, and topple regimes".
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
by Imani Perry

National Book Award winner Imani Perry explores the connections between the color blue and Black history in her lyrical and well-researched latest. 
Focus on: Women's History Month
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
by Lena Andrews

CIA military analyst Lena Andrews' illuminating history celebrates the crucial yet overlooked contributions of 400,000 American women who served in World War II, featuring interviews with surviving servicewomen. 
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory

Bestselling novelist Philippa Gregory turns to history with this sweeping and well-researched chronicle of everyday British women's lives from 1066 to 1994. 
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
by Katie Hickman

Historian Katie Hickman draws on letters, diaries, and memoirs to explore the roles of influential women in the 19th-century American West. 
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific...
by Olivia Campbell

Journalist Olivia Campbell reveals the compelling yet little-known story of four women scientists who fled Nazi Germany after their research was stymied and found success in the United States and Sweden. 
Woman, Life, Freedom
by Marjane Satrapi, editor

Inspired by the 2022 fatal beating of Iranian student Mahsa Amini for wearing her headscarf improperly, this impassioned anthology of stories, cartoons, and essays, created in solidarity with the Iranian feminist movement, was edited by award-winning Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi.
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