LFA Library: New Materials (Dec 2016- Jan 2017)
NOTE: The Trust of Mark H. Sokolsky (LFA ’68) gave LFA a generous gift specifically to acquire library materials related to American history. Items in BLUE were purchased from this donation.
Overdrive eBooks (Blue= Non-Fiction “Mark H. Sokolsky Donation”; Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction)
Title Author
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Charles Mann
Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape Elizabeth Schlabach
American Architecture: A History (Second Edition) Leland M. Roth and Amanda C. Roth Clark
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Colin Woodard (Winner, 2012 Maine Literary Award for Non-Fiction)
American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest Paul Andrew Hutton War in American History
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America Philip Dray (Finalist, 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978 Darius V. Echeverria
Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
The Battle for Christmas Stephan Nissenbaum (Finalist, 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK Gerald Posner (Finalist, 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History)
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America Allan Brandt
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago Gary Krist
Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union Stephen Budiansky
Crime and Punishment In American History (Finalist, 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History) Lawrence Friedman
The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femininity in a Court of Law A. Cheree Carlson
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady Susan Quinn
Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy Before the Seventeenth Amendment Wendy Schiller & Charles Stewart III Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America (Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History) Nick Bunker
Enemies: A History of the FBI Tim Weiner
Essential Documents of American History, Volume I: From Colonial Times to the Civil War Bob Blaisdell
Essential Documents of American History, Volume II: From Reconstruction to the Twenty-First Century Bob Blaisdell
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 (Finalist, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction) Thomas E. Ricks
Formed from This Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America Thomas Bremer
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Margot Lee Shetterly Win the Space Race
Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements Todd Leahy & Nathan Wilson
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero Timothy Egan
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow (Winner, 1990 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 Steven High (Winner, 2004 American Historical Association’s Corey Prize)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen
A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II J. Michael Martinez
Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Sara M Gregg Appalachia (Winner, 2010 Forest History Society’s Weyerhaueser Book Award)
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 James T. Campbell, et al. (Finalist, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History)
The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History Darrin Lunde
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Jill Lepore (Finalist, 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove (Winner, 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History)
The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater Thomas Bauman
A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Nicolas Lampert Movements
The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age Robert MacDougall (Winner, 2016 American Historical Association’s Corey Prize)
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis
A Queer History of the United States Michael Bronski (Winner, 2012 Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction)
Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past Peter Boag (Winner, 2013 Organization of American Historians’ Billington Prize)
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States Alexander Keyssar (Finalist, 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Cornelia H. Dayton & Sharon (Winner, 2015 Organization of American Historians’ Curti Award and American Historical Association’s V. Salinger Littleton-Griswold Prize)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lepore
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America (Winner, 2016 Wil Haygood Ohioana Book Award, Scribes Book Award, and Black Caucus American Library Association’s Literary Award)
The Slave Ship: A Human History Marcus Rediker (Winner, 2008 American Historical Association’s Rawley Prize, Gilder-Lehrman Institute’s George Washington Book Prize, and Organization of American Historians’ Curti Award)
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects Richard Kurin
Sports in American Life: A History Richard O. Davies
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi (Winner, 2016 National Book Award for Non Fiction))
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class Jefferson R. Cowie (Winner, 2011 Society of American Historians’ Parkman Prize and Organization of American Historians’ Curti Award)
Stories of Scottsboro James Goodman (Finalist, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History)
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Margot Canaday (Winner, 2010 Organization of American Historians’ Hawley Prize, Lambda Literary Foundation Award, and American Studies Association’s Romero Prize)
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Edward J. Larson (Winner, 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy Andrew Preston (Winner, 2013 Charles Taylor prize for Literary Non-Fiction; Finalist, 2012 Cundhill Prize in History)
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age William E. Burrows (Finalist, 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History)
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon Nancy Plain (Winner, 2016 Nebraska Book Award and National Putdoor Book Award)
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow (Winner, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in Adrienne Berard the Jim Crow South
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem Stacy Schiff
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Clara Bingham Its Soul
Woodrow Wilson John Milton Cooper, Jr. (Finalist, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Print Collection
(Blue= Non-Fiction “Mark H. Sokolsky Donation”; Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction)
Title Author
American Economic History: A Dictionary and Chronology ABC-CLIO Publishers
Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Winner, American Historical Association’s 2013 Dunning Prize Winner)
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital David Oshinsky
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet John G. Turner (Winner, Mormon History Association’s 2013 Best Biography Award and Utah State Historical Society’s 2013 Best Utah History Book Award)
Campaigning for President in America, 1788-1916 ABC-CLIO Publishers
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Tyler Abinder
Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Stephanie McCurry (Finalist, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910 Julie M. Weise (Winner, Organization of American Historians’ 2016 Curti Award)
Daily Life Through American History in Primary Documents (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S. – Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Dennis Ross (Winner, 2015 National Jewish Book Award and Berman Award in History)
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 Patrick Rael
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-45 James D. Hornfischer
From Bible Belt to Sun Belt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroot Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism Darren Dochuk (Winner, American Historical Association’s 2011 Dunning Prize and Organization of American Historians’ Hawley Prize)
The Great American Mosaic: An Exploration of Diversity in Primary Documents (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
How the Post Office Created America: A History Winifred Gallagher
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens Benedict Carey
Six Remarkable Hull-House Women Ruth Bobick (Gift of Author)
Ideas and Movements That Shaped America: from the Bill of Rights to “Occupy Wall Street” (3 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Imperialism and Expansionism in American History: A Social, Political and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Winner, Columbia University’s 2009 Bancroft Prize and American Society for Environmental History’s Marsh Thomas G. Andrews Prize)
The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt Patrick H. Breen
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Daniel Okrent (Winner, 2011 American Library Association’s Notable Books for Adults)
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories Ray Bradbury
“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination Annette Gordon-Reed
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark Colin G. Calloway (Winner, Western Writers of America’s 2004 Spur Award in Historical Nonfiction and Organization of American Historians’ 2005 Billington Award)
The Performance of Becoming Human Daniel Borzutzky (Winner, 2016 National Book Award for Poetry)
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters Kate Brown (Winner, Organization of American Historians’ 2014 Hawley Prize and American Historical Association’s 2015 Dunning Prize)
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America Christopher F. Jones (Winner, 2015 Edelstein Prize for the History of Technology)
Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer’s Project (3 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State (Winner, 2015 Michael Landis Dauber American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize)
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Jan Jarboe Russell Camp During World War II
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead (Winner, 2016 National Book Award for Fiction)
Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts Through Primary Sources (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It John Ferling
Women’s Rights in the United States (4 volumes) ABC-CLIO Publishers
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Christopher Hager (Winner, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s Frederick Douglass Book Prize)
DVDs
(Red= Feature Films; Black = Documentary Films) Title
The Birth of a Nation (Feature Film by Nate Parker. (Winner 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Award and Audience Award. DVD includes a documentary: Rise Up: The Legacy of Nat Turner)
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightening (PBS)
Klansville U.S.A. (PBS)
Life & Debt (Film by Stephanie Black)
Life, Animated (Director Roger Ross Williams; based on book by Ron Suskind)
School of the Future (PBS )
This Changes Everything (Film by Avi Lewis; based on book by Naomi Klein)
Videogames
Title
Battlefield 1 (PS4)
Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
Madden NFL 16 (XBOX)
Minecraft: Story Mode: The Complete Adventure (WiiU)
NBA2K17 (PS4)
The Last Guardian (PS4)