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Recent Titles in Print
This is a sampling of the some of the newer volumes found on the shelves in the Circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.
RELIGION & PSYCHOLOGY | ||
BF 1584 .E9 S73 2024 | Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic | |
BF 1622 .E5 S73 2023 | Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era | |
BR 165 .S235 2024 | The First Christian Communities, 32--380 CE: Quiet Christians, Visible Martyrs, and Compelling Texts | |
BS 1130 .W75 2023 | Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins | |
BV 4235 .T65 M38 2021 | When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter | |
BX 8611 .P33 2024 | American Zion: A New History of Mormonism | |
HISTORY (GENERAL) | ||
D 13 .B26 2021 | The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History | |
D 25 .M285 2020 | War: How Conflict Shaped Us | |
D 756.5 .N6 R93 2019 | Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far | |
D 767.99 .I9 R544 2020 | Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and His Controversial Award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War | |
D 804.348 .83 2019 | Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism | |
D 810 .C4 A44313 2019 | Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II | |
D 810 .H4 R63 2021 | Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII | |
D 810 .S8 M337 2019 | Return to the Reich | |
ANCIENT WORLD | ||
GN 780.25 .C55 2024 | After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations | |
N 5630 .D47 2022 | Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity | |
HISTORY OF EUROPE | ||
D 383 .S58 2021 | The Invention of International Order: Remaking of Europe after Napoleon | |
D 753 .P26 2024 | The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower | |
D 810 .W7 A56 2023b | Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II | |
DA 16 .B85 2023 | Internal Empire: The Rise and Fall of English Imperialism | |
DA 30 .S77 2019 | The Story of Britain: A History of the Great Ages | |
DD 180.5 .P37 2020 | Emperor: A New Life of Charles V | |
DF 211 .E77 2022 | The Essential Greek Historians | |
DF 531 .B48 2020 | Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages | |
DG 82 .K66 2020 | Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine | |
DG 445 .C378 2021 | The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 | |
DG 806.2 .M345 2020 | The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps | |
DK 293 .A44 2020 | Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World | |
DK 508.8 .B835 2020 | The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine | |
DK 651 .K2 R67 2020 | Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia | |
HISTORY OF ASIA & THE MIDDLE EAST | ||
DS 33.4 .U6 B53 2024 | Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power | |
DS 38.4 .S2 P45 2019 | The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin | |
DS 62.2 .U G594 2020 | Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East | |
DS 119.76 .T488 2023 | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction) | |
DS 122.3 .G64 2024 | Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World | |
DS 126.6 .A97 H44 2020 | The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad | |
DS 128.2 .O547 2019 | Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians | |
DS 146 .U6 F47 2023 | We Need to Talk about Antisemitism | |
DS 218 .M28 2019 | Arabs: A 3,000-year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires | |
DS 341 .M43 2020 | Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region | |
DS 436 .Z835 2023 | The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy―A Retelling for Our Times | |
DS 556.54 .G67 2022 | The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam | |
DS 778.7 .W325 2019 | Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution | |
DS 799.818 .K49 2024 | The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between | |
DS 919 .C55 2021 | Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History | |
HISTORY OF AFRICA | ||
DT 154 .A4 I87 2024 | Alexandria: The City that Changed the World | |
DT 352.65 .T56 2020 | A History of West Central Africa to 1850 | |
DT 352.7 .H373 2019 | Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa | |
DT 476 .G74 2019 | A Fistful of Shells | |
PR 447 .F39 2021 | Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism | |
HISTORY: THE AMERICAS | ||
E 40 .G53 2019 | El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America | |
E 77 .B636 2023 | The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History | |
E 77 .T797 2019 | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present | |
E 87 .B66 P43 2021 | The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap that Shaped America | |
E 93 .O78 2019 | Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas | |
E 98 .S67 M55 2019 | Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century | |
E 99 .S54 H28 2020 | Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877 | |
E 99 .T34 H35 2019 | Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power | |
E 99 .W2 S545 2019 | This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving | |
UNITED STATES | ||
E 184 .A1 C675 2022 | Freedom's Dominion | |
E 184 .M5 Z36 2022 | Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border | |
E 185 .F625 2021 | Four hundred souls : a community history of African America | |
E 185 .H565 2021 | The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans | |
E 185.18 .C64 2021 | The Colored Conventions Movement : Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century | |
E 185.18 .M337 2021 | Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction | |
E 185.61 .D646 2021 | Documents of the Harlem Renaissance | |
E 185.615 .M238 2021 | Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People | |
E 185.86 .K46 2021 | Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that Movement Forgot | |
E 185.93 .K3 L46 2019 | Slaves, Slaveholders and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom | |
E 185.93 .M6 T45 2019 | Remembering Emmett Till | |
E 185.97 .K5 E44 2023 | King: A Life (2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography) | |
E 185.97 .R39 V37 2020 | The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power | |
E 276 .W66 2019 | Women in the American Revolution | |
E 312.19 .W35 S38 2019 | The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington | |
E 450 .S59 S53 2023 | Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland | |
E 441 .A15 2021 | The 1619 Project | |
E 443 .B245 2021 | The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America | |
E 443 .D97 2021 | Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States | |
E 443 .J775 2019 | They Were Her Property | |
E 445 .N5 H37 2019 | Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England | |
E 445 .S7 M55 2021 | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction | |
E 449 .D75 R66 2020 | A Glorious Liberty | |
E 450 .C8 W66 2023 | Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Pulitzer Prize Winner - Biography) | |
E 459 .L265 2024 | The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | |
E 467.1 .C47 W55 2023 | On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | |
E 467.1 .L55 V37 2023 | Longstreet: The Confederate General who Defied the South | |
E 468.9 .B883 2020 | An Environmental History of the Civil War | |
E 468.9 .T395 2024 | 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North | |
E 628 .M35 2019 | Women's War | |
E 635 . B98 2021 | A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War | |
E 687.9 .J37 2021 | Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield | |
E 744.5 .G55 2022 | Global Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect | |
E 745 .T317 T73 2019 | Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam | |
E 748 .G296 C63 2019 | A Giant from Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George, 1878-1957 | |
E 807 .W695 2019 | A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
E 813 .B86 2023 | In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 | |
JK 1924 .J66 2020 | Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All | |
UNITED STATES LOCAL HISTORY | ||
F 73.44 .J66 2023 | No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Pulitzer Prize Winner - History) | |
F 216.2 .P47 2022 | South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (2022 National Book Award) | |
F 220 .A1 A4 2020 | Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020 | |
F 229 .K88 2019 | Pocahontas and the English Boys | |
F 232.S7 H65 2021 | Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community | |
F 249 .H95 F35 2019 | Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story | |
F 264 .W7 Z83 2021 | Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy | |
F 349 .H36 S78 2019 | Hattiesburg | |
F 451 .B75 2019 | A Brief History of Northern Kentucky | |
F 454 .B66 D78 2022 | Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Founder | |
F 460 .A24 M87 2019 | Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality | |
F 548.9 .N4 R66 2020 | Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals 1893-1930 | |
F 869 .S39 J3586 2019 | The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco | |
CANADA, LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN AREA | ||
F 1219.76 .S64 B47 2021 | Everyday Life in the Aztec World | |
F 1226 .H36 2019 | A Concise History of Mexico | |
F 1465.3 .R4 R45 2021 | Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization | |
F 1621 .D83 2019 | Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean | |
F 1776 .F397 2020 | Cuba : An American History | |
F 2169 .C3677 2021 | Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism | |
F 2521 .B768 2019 | The Brazil Reader | |
GEOGRAPHY | ||
G 246 .C7 N53 2020 | Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes | |
G 535 .L45 2019 | Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders | |
WATER SPORTS | ||
GV 836.4 .C37 2022 | Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming | |
HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCES | ||
GN 35 .K87 2023 | The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions | |
GT 2341 .E85 B87 2024 | How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity | |
HC 103 .B546 2022 | A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 | |
HE 8700.76 .U6 A647 | American Television During a Television Presidency | |
HM 671 .K33 2021 | We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice | |
HM 756 .F85 2022 | Community in Urban–Rural Systems | |
HM 821 .P547 2022 | A Brief History of Equality | |
HN 79 .A13 G65 2020 | The Southern Key: Class, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s | |
HQ 1236.5 .U6 R69 2020 | Votes for Women!: The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment | |
HQ 1597 .C464 2019 | The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women's Movement | |
HT 1523 .D55 2021 | Antiracist discourse: Theory and history of a macromovement | |
HV 699 .C775 2023 | Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America | |
HV 2113 .T26 2022 | Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity | |
HV 5090 .S93 P39 2022 | Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South | |
HV 6515 .H868 2023 | Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases that Changed Us | |
HV 6515 .K57 2020 | The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers | |
HX 843 .W555 2023 | American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | |
JC 585 .A7513 2023 | Liberty and Equality | |
LAW | ||
KD 371 .W56 C35 2022 | The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition | |
KF 4772 .G77 2022 | When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right | |
MUSIC & ART HISTORY | ||
KD 379 .W47 M87 2023 | Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art | |
ML 82 .C96 2022 | Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment | |
ML 197 .A87 2013 | Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | |
ML 395 .T94 2024 | The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America | |
ML 3508 .O48 2022 | Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture | |
ML 3508 .S95 2021 | Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) | |
ML 3524 .N42 2019 | Country Music: a Cultural and Stylistic History | |
NC 975 .B37 2021 | Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 | |
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE | ||
PE 125 .V54 2022 | The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English | |
PN 1992.8 .R43 N87 2024 | Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV | |
PS 1449 .C85 Z543 2021 | Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane | |
SCIENCE | ||
QH 31 .H9 B37 2022 | The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution | |
MEDICINE | ||
RA 395 .A3 K45 2021 | Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures | |
RA 448.5 .N4 V55 2022 | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America | |
RA 649 .C47 2021 | The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics: From Prehistory to COVID-19 | |
RG 962.5 .I6 T44 2019 | Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century | |
RT 4 .T63 2022 | Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing | |
HISTORY--TECHNOLOGY | ||
TX 945.3 .C46 2021 | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History | |
HISTORY--MILITARY | ||
UA 10 .U54 2022 | Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State | |
MANUSCRIPTS & PALEOGRAPHY | ||
Z 106.5 .E85 D43 2023 | The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts | |
Z 116 .A43 S9 2024 | The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives | |
BOOK HISTORY | ||
Z 1003.5 .B45 2021 | Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918 |
Print Books Containing Primary Historical Sources
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Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.
Library of Congress Classification Guide for History:
C 1-CT 9999 | Auxilliary Sciences of History (General) | |
CB 3-482 | History of Civilization | |
CC 1-960 | Archaeology | |
CD 1-6471 | Diplomatics. Archives. Seals | |
CE 1-97 | Technical Chronology. Calendar | |
CJ 1-6661 | Numismatics | |
CN 1-1355 | Inscriptions. Epigraphy | |
CR 1-6305 | Heraldry | |
CS 1-3090 | Geneology | |
CT 21-9999 | Biography | |
D 1-2009 | History (General) | |
D 51-90 | Ancient history | |
D11-203 | Medieval history, 476-1453 | |
D 205-2009 | Modern history, 1453- | |
DA 1-995 | History of Great Britain | |
DAW 1001-DR 2855 | History of Eastern and Western Europe | |
DS 1-937 | History of Asia | |
DT 1-3415 | History of Africa | |
DU 1-950 | History of Oceania | |
DX 101-301 | History of Gypsies | |
E 11-143 | America: History | |
E 151-889 | United States history | |
F 1-975 | United States local history | |
F 1001-1145.2 | Canada: History | |
F 1201-3799 | Latin America: History |
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