Katya Cengel met San Tran Croucher when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer.
2020–21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
2020–21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
In the early 1800s, John William Ware and Joseph Lindley each enter the Texas frontier with the dream of acquiring free land through grants provided by Mexico.
During the Iron Age, much of East Anglia was under the control of the Iceni tribe, whose queen Boudicca is believed to have been born close to present-day Norwich.
As politicians from both sides of the political spectrum constantly deluge the citizenry with class warfare idioms and cliches, aided by the media, regarding tax policies, we, the people, continually are told the "e;rich need to pay their fair share.
Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore.
Los Angeles Times BestsellerAn "e;epic exploration"e; of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"e;an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment"e; (Maggie Nelson).
Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience; and of course, Walden.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his death.
In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 18871906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas's most extraordinarily families and tells their story.
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014Ben Watt's father was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician-a politicized left-wing bandleader and composer-whose heyday in the late 1950s took him into the glittering heart of London's West End.
On January 30, 1892, on a field adjacent a small universitys quadrangle, just behind its New College, a mascotthe university goatwas paraded before approximately 1,500 spectators.
The history of the Main Line began in 1832 with the building of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, which opened the area to Philadelphia and points west for the movement of people and freight.
For thousands of years prior to Henry Hudsons voyage, the Hudson River was a vital commercial and strategic route for the indigenous peoples who settled near its banks.
Chicagos Worlds Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago Worlds Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular worlds fair ever built.
On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there.
The borough of Queens has been many thingsa playground for wealthy Manhattanites, a recreation area for pleasure seekers, a highly industrialized pocket of New York City, and one of the most beautiful and residential sections of which the city can boast.
Its place directly opposite San Francisco Bay from one of the worlds most visited cities has left Oakland to struggle against comparison from the start.
