<?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/oaklandlibrary/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>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:16:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Draft Proposal for Oakland Point Historic Interpretive Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lays out the Oakland Point Historica Interpretive Center, Inc.'s plans for a non-profit interpretive center which would document and interpret the early pioneer history of Oakland, and particularly of West Oakland, through architectural preservation, urban anthropology, and innovative material cultural curatorship to present some of the stories of Oakland' urban history. -- Cataloger's summary, adapted from the Project Objectives.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4243674</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4243674</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4243674183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>At Eleventh Street &amp; Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Oakland, California</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven Sisters]]></title><description><![CDATA["A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia-among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France-tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal ambition in a time of revolutionary cataclysm "Others make war; you, happy Austria, marry." For three centuries, the astute positioning of their many princesses and princes had kept the Habsburgs at the peak of European power. By 1764, after a generation of costly war, confronted by shaken alliances, immense debts, and restive subjects, the Empress Maria Theresia was seeking once again to assert the dynasty's power through strategic marriages. Her arsenal was full: her seven daughters were to serve as her pawns in the ruthless game of eighteenth-century dynastic politicking. Delivered to the grandest or dingiest courts in Europe, they made their difficult and even dangerous ways: Marianna the seeker; the grande dame Marie Christine; Elisabeth, the malicious, disfigured beauty; fractious and wayward Amalie of Parma; the tragic bride Josepha; Carolina of Naples, Napoleon's relentless enemy; and Antonia, youngest of the seven, sacrificial offering to the gods of revolution, better known to history as Marie Antoinette.e"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177506</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177506</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Buckley, Veronica]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177506183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe&apos;s First Family</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525561903/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Cross]]></title><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive history of the Baltic Crusades, examining how medieval holy wars waged by Catholic powers against pagan societies reshaped northern Europe between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Focusing on the role of the Teutonic Order, the book traces how conquest, conversion, and colonization transformed the Baltic region's political, religious, and cultural landscapes, and explores how the crusades' legacy was later reinterpreted for modern nationalist and ideological purposes.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198177</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pluskowski, Aleksander]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4198177183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A History of the Baltic Crusades</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300279061/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria]]></title><description><![CDATA["Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autocracy, suffering through tragedy after tragedy over the past century. Yet the history of Syria is not just a tale of dictators and generals. From the 1800s to the 2020s, the Syrian people have engaged in a passionate struggle for justice, equality, and a better future. Whether fighting for national independence from French colonial rule, battling local landowning elites to share the country’s wealth, or rising up against the Assad regime, the Syrian people have fiercely clung to their right to live with respect and dignity. Theirs is a story of protest and perseverance in the long fight to reshape the political destiny of their nation. Daniel Neep’s Syria: A Modern History offers a gripping narrative of how Syrians have navigated these events. Never losing sight of the fates of ordinary people, it provides a comprehensive account of how a nation born in conflict nevertheless sustained a rich, complex, and diverse society that will now chart its own path into the uncertain future." -- Amazon.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147575</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147575</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Neep, Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147575183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Modern History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541608122/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scandal in Königsberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[As told by one of our greatest historians, the story of the scandal that took down two Lutheran preachers in the heart of nineteenth-century Prussia--a chamber piece of cultish esotericism, pseudoscience, and political resistance that conjures up Europe at the end of the age of reason and presages our current age of misinformation. In 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel were tried for having started a cult. Worse: It was a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual behavior in women, including the daughters of prestigious Prussian families--causing the deaths of two young women from sexual exhaustion. The trial would absorb and polarize the city of Königsberg for half a decade and ruin the lives and careers of its defendants, despite their eventual legal exoneration. The historical moment it encapsulates--a Europe reeling from the triumph and horror of a new industrial, imperial era, struggling to decide which principles will reign in the aftermath of Enlightenment reason--is a fable for our present time of political, social, and existential disquiet. The great Cambridge historian Christopher Clark--known for The Sleepwalkers, his monumental, defining study of the causes of the First World War--came across the files containing this story three decades ago; it has been swirling in his mind ever since. In gripping, narrative prose, Clark immerses us in a Königsberg scarred by the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars, where Immanuel Kant had recently inaugurated the theory of consciousness that completely reshaped humanity's understanding of itself--but where the distinction between reason and fanaticism was now up for grabs. A Scandal in Königsberg is a European history in exquisite miniature--and a peerless lesson in the theological and philosophical debates that animated the Western world at one of its great moments of transformation. Rich and provocative, A Scandal in Königsberg articulates an unsettling antecedent for our most fiercely litigated contemporary questions of sexual identity, freedom of thought, and who gets to decide what constitutes the truth.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177500</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177500</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Clark, Christopher M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177500183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217060948/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Evidence]]></title><description><![CDATA["Black Evidence describes the centuries-old tactics used to deny Black truth. Black people were not allowed to testify in court, were lynched to intimidate them, determined to not feel much pain so they could be experimented on, and schoolchildren adultified and arrested for misbehavior. These are some of the ways the US squashed Black participation economically and legally. Professor Candis Watts-Smith exposes how Black people are distrusted to accurately describe social and personal experiences, as well as to address the original sins of the United States: slavery, Jim Crow, and structural racism. Smith tells of Black Californians barred from testifying so could not get justice to Rachel Jeantel, who spoke to Trayvon Martin as he was killed and whose testimony was dismissed as illiterate in the George Zimmerman trial. A newer version was the reinterpretation of the video in the Rodney King case to make him guilty for his own police beating. Candis Watts Smith shows how the sins of the past continue in the present and the cure is to believe Black people, to listen to their voices and their evidence and amplify them." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177401</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177401</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Candis Watts]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177401183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A History and A Warning</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324036272/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on sharing the stories of American heroines who helped change the course of history. We the Women presents a new and extraordinary retelling of American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The pressing question from women since the signing of the document has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through extensive research and interviews, as well as old photos and historic documents, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katharine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements, to the first women who served in the Armed Forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so, writes the American story anew.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147587</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147587</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[O'Donnell, Norah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147587183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593727027/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&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. A riveting work of narrative history, The Unfinished Business of 1776 shows that the Revolutionary struggle did not end in 1787, when the Constitution was ratified: across ten dramatic chapters, Richards introduces readers to the vividly drawn characters who kept the Revolution alive for the next century and beyond, including the women’s rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray, the enslaved rebel Gabriel, the protosocialist Solomon Sharpe, and the utopian dreamer Joseph Smith—each pushing for freedoms that extended well beyond the traditional narrative of the Revolution, and each revealing how the unfinished work of 1776 fueled demands for economic, social, and legal equality that lasted well beyond the Revolution itself.t"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219672</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219672</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://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4219672183</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=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever Hong Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial protest? Ching Kwan Lee provides a reflective history and vivid ethnography of an improbable decolonization movement, exploring what drives Hong Kongers' pursuit of a future built on democracy, justice, and self-determination."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219544</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219544</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee, Ching Kwan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4219544183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Global City&apos;s Decolonization Struggle</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780674290198/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Moment Is A Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In early 2024, writer and activist Susan Abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the Culture and Free Thought Association, Susan held a series of workshops for young people who had been displaced to tent encampments. The lives of all participants were marked by unrelenting Israeli violence and extraordinary loss--of home, family, safety, education, electricity, and all the structures of humanity. Still, despite the bitterness of life in tents and the dangers of travel, they came together to share in the refuge of writing and community. Samya recounts a tender moment with an old man mending shoes in the street, while her cousin Saja hides books in her closet, hoping they and her home will still be there when she returns. Ghassan is haunted by the baby he rescued from the rubble, who for a time became his son. Fatma risks it all to retrieve her clothes from a danger zone buzzing with drones and warplanes. Maram's loving aunt is gone, and chaos inhabits Amrou's mind. Every Moment is a Life delivers rare, unfiltered portraits of life from the emerging voices struggling to survive in Gaza today. These essays are raw and real, capturing human moments--buying bread, going to the bathroom, sharing a meal, drinking coffee--all set against the backdrop of history's first livestreamed genocide. With courage, anger, love, agony, and--impossibly--hope, these achingly tender voices from Gaza will stay with us, captured in these pages, forever.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177434</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177434</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177434183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Gaza in the Time of Genocide</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668222362/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[William and Catherine]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this biography by acclaimed royal journalist Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and Catherine's relationship from their earliest meeting at St Andrews University to the present day. Drawing on exclusive access to numerous palace insiders, it offers never-before-told context about the biggest stories to have followed the Prince and Princess of Wales in recent years - including the Sussex departure, the forming of the 'Cambridge way,' and the death of Queen Elizabeth II - and provides an unprecedented glimpse into their private lives.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147593</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147593</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Myers, Russell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147593183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Monarchy&apos;s New Era : the Inside Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798897101368/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe Passage]]></title><description><![CDATA["An account of the logistical challenges, diplomatic obstacles, and forced repatriations surrounding the World War II exchange of nearly 1,500 civilians stranded abroad"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177498</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177498</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iritani, Evelyn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177498183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea in World War II</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374261078/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Death of Trotsky]]></title><description><![CDATA["For fans of Ben Macintyre, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4104754</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4104754</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ireland, Josh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4104754183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin&apos;s Greatest Enemy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593187104/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Missions to Megalopolis]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the midst of a distinguished academic career in social sciences focused largely on the individual and the family, in 1984 Professor Basil Sherlock became intrigued by his own urban environment, the San Francisco Bay Area, as an example of megalopolis, an explosion of growth spanning multiple cities. He embarked on what he envisioned as a ten-year study. Decades later, that quest has expanded to include the entire El Camino Real, the former Spanish colonial route from San Diego to San Francisco that links coastal cities in a yet vaster megalopolis. It has become the engine driving California's ascent to the world's fifth-largest economy and the nation's most populous state. From there, Dr. Sherlock widened the scope further to include global megalopolises in Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, and the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. Unexpectedly, the initial fascination with urban giants has become a chronicle of their maturing, the taming of what even recently seemed a boundless appetite for increase and influence. The result is this book, a unique, scholarly merging of urban geography, history, sociology, economics, and demographics, balancing the rigors of analysis with personal narratives. The author is equally alert to the challenges and dangers, as well as the vitality, of the megalopolis phenomenon. Ultimately, what matters most to Dr. Sherlock are the people living amid these immense urban landscapes, how the past and the present will shape their future." -- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219848</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4219848</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherlock, Basil J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4219848183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>El Camino Real, California&apos;s Road to the 21st Century, and Its Place in An Urbanizing World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798865777366/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Navigator's Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on August 1, 1943, over the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania--Nazi Germany's primary fuel source. The Allies believed that the destruction of Hitler's oil refineries would shorten the war. Using an untested strategy, it was worth the gamble, but the mission did not go according to plan--with 53 aircraft and 532 crewmen lost, it was the costliest US air raid of the war. A true story, The Navigator's Letter is a tale of uncanny coincidences: two friends from the same small Illinois town; both joined the Air Corps; both became navigators; both were assigned to B-24 Liberators; both flew missions over Europe; both of their planes were forced down over Ploesti; and both went missing-in-action. Intertwined with events of WWII, the story follows the two B-24 navigators coursing through wartime, both with ties to the same woman. Their lives unfurl with the Air Force's darkest day, Operation Tidal Wave. It was the first-ever zero-altitude air raid, which lead to Operation Reunion, the largest evacuation by air in history repatriating 1,162 POWs from Romania back to American air bases in Italy.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147554</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cress Dondi, Jan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147554183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, A Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781454956358/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Coming Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The vast majority of people alive today have come of age in a world of remarkable stability, presided over by either one or two Superpowers. This is not to say the world has been peaceful; but it has, to a great extent, been predictable. As an increasing number of Great Powers jostle for regional supremacy, as well as competitive advantage in nuclear technology, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and trade, our world has become more fragile, unpredictable--and combustible. The outbreak of global war among today's Great Powers seems increasingly likely. Such war, as Odd Arne Westad powerfully argues in this urgent book, would be of a magnitude and devastation never before seen. To understand the threats that face us in this complex new terrain, we must look to the lessons of the past, and especially the late nineteenth and early twentieth century--a time when Great Powers clashed and sought regional dominance, nationalism and populism were on the rise, and many felt that globalization had failed them; a time when tariffs increased, immigration and terrorism were among the biggest issues of the day, and a growing number of people blamed the citizens of other countries for their problems. A time, in other words, that carries eerie parallels with our own.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177415</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4177415</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://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4177415183</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=oaklandplca&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://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147510</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147510</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://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147510183</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=oaklandplca&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."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4126431</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4126431</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://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4126431183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One Hundred Years of Blood, Race, and Memory</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593471869/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, War, and Diplomacy]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed. Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt's pharaohs. A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today's"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198167</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198167</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cline, Eric H.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4198167183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691274089/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1619 Project]]></title><description><![CDATA["Curated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this illustrated edition of The 1619 Project features seven chapters from the original book that lend themselves to beautiful, engaging visuals, deepening the experience of the content. The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience offers the same revolutionary idea as the original book, an argument for a new national origin story that begins in late August of 1619, when a cargo ship of enslaved people from Africa arrived on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and understanding its powerful influence on our present can we prepare ourselves for a more just future. Filled with original art by thirteen Black artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Calida Rawles, Vitus Shell, Xaviera Simmons, on the themes of resistance and freedom, a brand-new photo essay about slave auction sites, vivid photos of Black Americans celebrating their own forms of patriotism, and a collection of archival images of Black families by Black photographers, this gorgeous volume offers readers a dynamic new way of experiencing the impact of The 1619 Project. Complete with many of the powerful essays and vignettes from the original edition, written by some of the most brilliant journalists, scholars, and thinkers of our time, The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience brings to life a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of American history and culture."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4199053</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4199053</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4199053183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Visual Experience</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593232255/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official Negligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring 1992, and the City of Angels was suddenly a modern hell. During five terrifying days, as the world watched in horror, the deadliest urban rioting of the twentieth century laid waste to South Central Los Angeles. But there's a hidden story behind the riots. Lou Cannon, who covered Los Angeles for The Washington Post before, during, and after the violence, has exhaustively interviewed the survivors and learned the definitive story of just what happened and why. Official Negligence takes us behind the scenes at City Hall and at police headquarters, inside jury rooms, onto the front lines of the violence in the streets, and into the hearts and minds of unknown heroes and tells, for the first time, a riveting tale of multiple injustices, mismanagements, and misjudgments. Official Negligence illuminates all the characters and events surrounding what went wrong in Los Angeles. In so doing, it lays bare the ethnic, racial, and economic fault lines that divide American society at the approach of the millennium]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198883</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4198883</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cannon, Lou]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4198883183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812921908/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chosen and the Damned]]></title><description><![CDATA[A historical study examining the central role of race in Native American and United States history from the colonial era to the modern period. The book traces how Euro-American and Native American racial identities were formed and contested over four centuries, including colonial wars, the creation of reservations and boarding schools, and modern Native activism. Themes include the construction of White and Native identity, the effects of racial ideology on national policy, and the resilience and resistance of Native peoples. The work situates Native Americans as integral to understanding U.S. racial history.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147496</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147496</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Silverman, David J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147496183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781635578386/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy's Coup]]></title><description><![CDATA["A gripping narrative account of the CIA-backed coup in South Vietnam that John F. Kennedy encouraged and which precipitated America's involvement in one of the most controversial and consequential wars in our history."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147542</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147542</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheevers, Jack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147542183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A White House Plot, A Saigon Murder, and America&apos;s Descent Into Vietnam</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668082409/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The People Can Fly]]></title><description><![CDATA["What does promise cost in America? Especially when that promise is seen as grounds to separate us from the communities we cherish, and framed as the key to success, salvation, survival? In The People Can Fly, Dr. Joshua Bennett explores the complex position of Black prodigies in a society that has, all too often, defined blackness as absence, as a lack of inner life. Through this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history, Dr. Bennett shares how his own academic journey reflected the ebb and flow of being seen as both promising and as a problem. He turns to the childhood archives of Malcolm X, Stevie Wonder, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and others to further explore this theme: highlighting the role of cultural institutions, and loving communities, in shaping the lives of leading lights within African American culture. What's more, Dr. Bennett clarifies how these spaces--these mentors, teachers, friends, and kin--helped defend young people from a world that sought to exclude them from its vision of promise and possibility."-- Publisher description.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147559</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147559</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett, Joshua]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147559183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316576024/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll Make Me A World]]></title><description><![CDATA["From one of America's leading historians of Black education and the author of American Grammar Jarvis R. Givens comes a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147537</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C4147537</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Givens, Jarvis R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4147537183</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The 100-year Journey of Black History Month</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063478824/MC.GIF&amp;client=oaklandplca&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>