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Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to h... Read More about Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the s... Read More about The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jan... Read More about Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

From the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in I'm Possible, an inspiring memoir of perseverance and possibility."Powerful . . . equal parts heartwarming and heart-wrenching. White is a gifted storyteller." —Washington PostYoung R... Read More about I'm Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream

The Beaches is one of Toronto's best known and most admired neighbourhoods. It has no striking works of architecture or splendid public spaces, no must-see galleries or public institutions, and no associations with historic events or great celebrities - the sort of things that create neighbourhood r... Read More about The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood

An Open Access edition will be available on publication. The murder of George Floyd in 2020, the renewed international take up of the cry Black Lives Matter and the subsequent toppling of a statue commemorating slave-merchant-turned-philanthropist Edward Colston in Bristol provoked urgent questions ... Read More about Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol's Memoryscapes (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery #22)