<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for ca:9* -ca:91* AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for ca:9* -ca:91* AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mpl/rss/search?query=ca%3A9%2A%20-ca%3A91%2A%20AND%20nw%3A%5B0%20TO%20180%5D&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=History&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:07:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Presidents]]></title><description><![CDATA["Each president has faced unique circumstances and made impactful choices that have shaped the nation. This comprehensive volume offers a comprehensive exploration of these leaders' lives, delving into their personal and political journeys and revealing the complexities of their presidencies, as well as their enduring impact on American society."--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9679398</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9679398</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9679398075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780716692560/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Terrible Intimacy]]></title><description><![CDATA["From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, recovering the lives of those who lived in small households, in close and intimate proximity to their enslavers A white man hosts a wedding party for his enslaved servant and finds himself charged with a criminal offense; an overseer ends up dead after getting drunk with a slave; a slaveholder courts a Black woman owned by his neighbor and starts a family with her. A Terrible Intimacy recounts six criminal cases in one Virginia county in the years preceding the Civil War. Witnesses of both races describe a startling range of relationships between white and Black. Contrary to our common assumption, fully half the enslaved people in the South lived not on sprawling plantations but on small properties. Cruelty was baked into the system, yet in these households of five, ten, or fifteen people, exploiters and exploited knew each other well, sharing religious worship, folkways, and complex domestic dynamics. White and Black people drank, played, slept, and even committed crimes together. Yet whippings happened often, enslaved families were split up, and in 1861, most white men in Prince Edward County were ready to fight to defend their right to own other human beings. These relationships between slaves and enslavers make clear that white Americans recognized the humanity of Black people, even as they remained committed to a system that abused and often terrorized them. Offering striking new insights into the true complexity of life in the old South, A Terrible Intimacy reconfigures our understanding of this darkest of histories"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9669526</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9669526</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ely, Melvin Patrick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9669526075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250381118/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[America Celebrates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrate 250 years of important people, places, and events in American history.--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9579671</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9579671</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrus, Aubre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9579671075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Most Incredible and Influential People, Places &amp; Events of the Last 250 Years</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780760398609/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza Before We Die]]></title><description><![CDATA["The human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war correspondent, but an ordinary citizen whose life was upended when the genocide began. In the midst of the chaos, Hassan began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, started collecting his posts without a clear plan--only the conviction that his story needed to be seen and the hope that somehow, it might help raise funds for him. By chance, those posts found their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh, who helped Hassan frame them for a book. Hassan's missives are a vivid, heartbreaking account of war and its toll--on families, on children, on innocent civilians. These are stories of hunger, survival, and death. These are stories that demand to be heard. And yet, stories like these are not being told: Mainstream media has largely remained silent. Foreign journalists are barred from Gaza. Local journalists are being killed. In this vacuum, Hassan's voice breaks through out of the darkness and into the light. Pizza Before We Die is literary journalism at its rawest and most urgent--clear eyed, unflinching, and deeply humane. Hassan captures the unspeakable horror of the tragedy in Gaza with restraint and precision, never sensationalizing, always bearing witness. It is a work of raw power and emotion and a reminder that in the midst of chaos and tragedy, our shared humanity remains intact. In addition to editing this book, Yasuko Thanh has written a foreword that provides a context for Hassan's powerful story. A portion of proceeds from the sale of Pizza Before We Die will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières."--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9675524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9675524</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kanafani, Hassan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9675524075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Eyewitness Account in Gaza</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781834050324/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Westerners]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwoven stories. The first reveals the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West -- Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants -- in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history, through a frontier myth that lionized individualism and conquest and celebrated white settlers traveling west in search of prosperity. Nelson's vivid, eye-opening account centers on seven extraordinary individuals whose lives capture the true history of the frontier: Sacajawea, not just Lewis and Clark's guide but an explorer who forged her own path; Jim Beckwourth, a biracial fur trader whose sharp cultural insight made him indispensable; María Gertrudis Barceló, a Hispana gambling saloon owner who broke every stereotype to become the wealthiest woman in Santa Fe; Ovando Hollister, a gold miner, soldier, and newspaper man who championed Western expansion; Little Wolf, a Northern Cheyenne chief whose courageous leadership secured his people's future; Canadian immigrant Ella Watson, who strove to become a ranch woman in a male-dominated world; and the defiant Polly Bemis, a Chinese immigrant who carved out a life in Idaho despite federal expulsion efforts." --]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9674853</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9674853</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson, Megan Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9674853075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Myth-making and Belonging on the American Frontier</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668004340/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Land Is your Land]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage asshe travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America's greatest successes and challenges"--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9648819</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9648819</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gage, Beverly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9648819075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Road Trip Through U.S. History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668033104/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Search for Meaning]]></title><description><![CDATA["Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl shares his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author labored in four different camps including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. His theory, known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (meaning), holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9673173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9673173</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frankl, Viktor E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9673173075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781663607980/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chasing Freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA["An exquisitely crafted memoir, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford, that lays bare the violent, enduring legacy of colonialism on both a country and a family"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9672697</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9672697</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chigudu, Simukai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9672697075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Coming of Age at the End of Empire</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593443699/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[To End All Wars]]></title><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9667821</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9667821</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gordon, Ernest]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 1963 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9667821075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780007118489/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Paso]]></title><description><![CDATA["From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes. El Paso is an extraordinary, can't-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the myth of this place, where Mexico's Juarez and America's El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. From the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Repatriation, to the shifting immigration laws under Reagan and Trump and the violence and bloodshed brought on by the drug war, El Paso captures a place often misunderstood or forgotten by the rest of the country, and the world. El Paso is a brave new work of narrative nonfiction that gives new voice and perspective to history that has long been checked at the border, or told through the lens of white men alone. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters"--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651731</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651731</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ulloa, Jazmine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9651731075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593471869/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Coming Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA["From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid it in the twenty-first century.--Dust jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651728</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651728</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Westad, Odd Arne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9651728075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Power, Conflict and Warnings From History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250410283/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight of Camelot]]></title><description><![CDATA[A heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's premature son, Patrick, and how their shared grief brought them closer together in the months leading up to his assassination. In April 1963, the White House announced that Jackie was pregnant with a sibling for Caroline and John Jr.--joyful news after years of miscarriages and a stillbirth in 1956. But on August 7th, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born six weeks early, and in the absence of lifesaving measures common today, he died less than two days later. In this definitive, soulful account of the struggle to save Patrick, Steven Levingston reveals that the infant's brief life, tragic as is was, ultimately set the notoriously unfaithful president on a path to becoming a more attentive husband and father only months before his fateful trip to Dallas. In a parallel storyline, Levingston reveals the largely unknown role President Kennedy played in modernizing an important corner of American health care. After Patrick's death, he ordered studies into the primitive state of premature care and drummed up millions of dollars in government funding, igniting a revolution in treatments that over the decades have saved millions of infants thanks to the invention of baby ventilators, new drugs, and modern neonatal intensive care units. For his definitive account of Patrick's brief but influential life, drawing on first-ever interviews with doctors who treated Jackie and Patrick, new revelations of the Secret Service agent in whose speeding car Jackie nearly gave birth prematurely, and on new archival documents, Twilight of Camelot is a fresh and humanizing portrait of one of the most famous and complicated couples of the 20th century, and a pulsating drama that illuminates little-known details of the Kennedy family history and legacy.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9591788</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9591788</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Levingston, Steven]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9591788075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Short Life and Long Legacy of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668033166/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genealogies of Hadley Families]]></title><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9660997</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9660997</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boltwood, Lucius M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1862 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9660997075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armaveni]]></title><description><![CDATA["Nadine loves stories and her mother loves to tell them--all but one. Nadine would give anything to learn about her family's history in Armenia and Turkey--where they came from and how they came to America--but it is just too painful for her parents. All Nadine knows is that they were caught up in the Armenian genocide.  Until one day the dam bursts. And through that flood of stories and memories, and a trip back to their people's homelands, Nadine discovers a key to unlocking her own heritage and the courage to speak up when injustice rears its head again. Told in interwoven historical, contemporary, and fantastical sequences, Armaveni is a gripping graphic novel debut and a much-needed historical document."--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642560</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Takvorian, Nadine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9642560075</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781646146369/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[End of Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[On August 21, 1992, shots rang out while federal agents were surveilling a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho as part of an operation to arrest Randy Weaver--a reclusive, mountain-dwelling survivalist--for failure to appear in court on a gun charge. When Weaver finally surrendered to the authorities eleven days later, his wife, son, and dog lay dead, as did a US Marshal. Ever since, America has been trying to make sense of what happened on Ruby Ridge. Today, the question could not be more urgent, as the shock waves from Ruby Ridge have amplified and compounded, cracking the very foundations of our democracy.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9649378</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9649378</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennings, Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9649378075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316381949/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Man in A Hurry]]></title><description><![CDATA["'Go slow,' his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has never known such a speed. For Newsom, the California Dream is what lured his father's family from County Cork, Ireland, six generations ago. His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later, Newsom would be elected as mayor, running on the values instilled in him by his family history: that California's open arms must continue to extend to each new generation. Newsom has never lived anywhere but California. Born in San Francisco, his parents divorced at a young age, and his childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into San Francisco society, a world of wealth and connections. The dissonance was frustrating, and made all the more difficult because of undiagnosed dyslexia, but the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his mother's perseverance and his father's reverence of California, not only its wildness, but its opportunity. In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom traces the forces that have defined his ambitions as a politician and have pushed him to outpace the nation on myriad cutting-edge social issues that have since entered the mainstream. As mayor of San Francisco, he made waves when he violated state law in order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, more than ten years before the Supreme Court made such unions legal. He launched bold efforts to counter climate change, improve mental health care, and enhance gun safety, and worked to preserve the California Dream for his constituents. Elected as governor on the eve of unprecedented wildfires and entering office into immediate hyper-partisan headwinds from Washington, DC, Newsom has constantly and consistently stuck his neck out. Here for the first time, he reflects on the long personal journey that ultimately shaped him into one of the most recognizable and accomplished elected officials in America. Filled with intimate family history and written with candor and remarkable personal insight, here is a deeply resilient California story of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics."]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9616028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9616028</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Newsom, Gavin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9616028075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Discovery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984881939/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Windsor Legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Elizabeth II to King William, this volume offers a riveting exploration of the British monarchy's resilience and influence over the past century, looking at its key players and conflicts, with a forward-looking examination of its future.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9652609</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9652609</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jobson, Robert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9652609075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal, and Survival</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798897100927/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Presidents Fact Book]]></title><description><![CDATA["This in-depth history of our nation's 46 presidents is now fully revised and updated to include Donald Trump's eventful term in office, Joe Biden's presidency, and the results of the 2024 presidential election. The Presidents Fact Book is the complete compendium of all things presidential and a sweeping survey of American history through the biography of every president from George Washington to the current president. Organized chronologically by president, each entry covers the major accomplishments and events of the presidential term; cabinet members, election results, groundbreaking legislation, and Supreme Court appointments; personality and personal habits including hobbies, odd behaviors, and outlandish penchants; a behind-the-scenes look at wives, families, friends, and foes; and much more. Major moments from administrations -- from the Bill of Rights and the Emancipation proclamation to the Civil Rights Era and the coronavirus pandemic -- provide a glimpse into the crucial moments of America's storied past. Perfect for students, history buffs, and political junkies, The Presidents Fact Book is at once an expansive collage of the American presidency and a comprehensive view of American history." --]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9654255</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9654255</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matuz, Roger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9654255075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Achievements, Campaigns, and Legacies of Every President</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780762489404/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings and Pawns]]></title><description><![CDATA["A path-breaking work of biography of two American giants, Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson, whose lives would forever be altered by the Cold War, and would explosively intersect before its most notorious weapon, the House Un-American Activities Committee -- from one of the best sports and culture writers working today."--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9646329</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9646329</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryant, Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9646329075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063308169/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico]]></title><description><![CDATA["From acclaimed and prizewinning historian Paul Gillingham, the rich and fascinating history of one of the world's most diverse, politically groundbreaking, and influential of countries. From its outset, 'Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of the world,' writes Paul Gillingham at the beginning of this masterful work of scholarship and narration. Over the ensuing five centuries, Mexicans have prefigured and shaped the course of human lives across the globe. Gillingham begins in 1511 with the dramatic shipwreck of two Spanish sailors near the Yucatán Peninsula. Ten years later Hernán Cortés led an army of European adventurers and indigenous rebels to seize the legendary island city of Tenochtitlán, the largest in the Americas and the center of Montezuma's empire. The capture of the future Mexico City was, more than an extraordinary military event, the collision of two long-separated worlds, radically different in everything from biota to urban planning. Spaniards discovered tomatoes, chocolate, and a city larger and more sophisticated than anything they had ever seen. Mexicans discovered horses, wheels, and new lethal germs, sparking a cataclysmic century of disease that wiped out a majority of the preexisting population and led to a unique recombination of European and indigenous cultures. Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821 led to a calamitous mid-century war with the United States and then one of the first great social revolutions that brought peace for Mexicans throughout many of the global horrors of the twentieth century, before the country itself slipped into the violence of the cartels and a refugee crisis in the 2000s. Through it all, Mexico set new standards for inclusivity, for progressive social policies, for artistic expression, for adroitly balancing dictatorship and democracy. While racial divides endured, so too did indigenous peoples, who enjoyed rights unthinkable in the United States. Mexico was among the first countries to abolish slavery in 1829, and since then Mexicans have elected North America's first Black president, Vicente Guerrero; the region's only indigenous president, Benito Juárez; and its only woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum. As elegantly written as it is powerful in scope, rich in character and anecdote, Mexico uses the latest research to dazzling effect, showing how often the country has been a dynamic and vital shaper of world affairs"--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9653357</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9653357</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gillingham, Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9653357075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A 500-year History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802164841/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic History of the Incas]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book contains the fascinating history of the rise and fall of the Incan empire: how it started, who created it and how, what they built, how they ran things, what daily life was like for its people, what its armies were like, and why it came to an end."--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642873</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642873</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9642873075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9786124450617/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Six Triple Eight]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1944, the United States was facing a unique wartime crisis: too much mail. Millions of letters and packages, stacked from floor to ceiling, sat unsent in cold, dark warehouses, with no one to sort through the backlog and no way to deliver mail to the troops. Enter the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Formed of Black women who had advocated fiercely for their right to enlist in the U.S. military, the 'Six Triple Eight' battalion had one special task: sort and send the mail. It wasn't easy, but the Six Triple Eight got to work. Putting in long hours to send out each piece of mail in record time, they had a four-word motto that powered them through: 'No mail, low morale!' As they helped deliver support to the soldiers on the front lines, these women proved there was nothing they couldn't do"--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642876</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642876</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Abari, Tonya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9642876075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A True Story of the Black Woman Battalion of World War II</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063265769/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unfinished Business of 1776]]></title><description><![CDATA[A clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation's founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards Jr. invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651557</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9651557</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richards, Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9651557075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Why the American Revolution Never Ended</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620979242/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping St. Louis]]></title><description><![CDATA["Hahn tells the story of the city from its founding to the present day by interweaving 40 maps along with short essays, detailed views, and captioned illustrations that provide stories and history that are only hinted at on each map. Tales of St. Louis's colonial days, the Revolutionary and Civil wars, systematic segregation, the World's Fair, and our greatest cultural institutions ... are all told through the lens of detailed and colorful maps. The featured maps are reproduced as large as each page will allow, and many have rarely been published."--]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9642914</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hahn, Andrew W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9642914075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A History of the Gateway City in 40 Rare Maps</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781681065526/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Tell the President]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former staffers to George H.W. Bush narrate stories behind presidential events over the past sixty years.]]></description><link>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9650759</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9650759</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becker, Jean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9650759075</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Best, Worst &amp; Mostly Untold Stories From Presidential Advance</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063446779/MC.GIF&amp;client=notsobplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>