ANOVA/PORTICO
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Whatever Happened to Tanganyika? The Place Names That History Left Behind (May, $14.95) by Harry Campbell traces the name changes of countries and cities.
ARCADE
Battlefield Angels: The History and Heroism of America's Military Medical Corps (Aug., $26.95) by Scott McGaugh depicts medics and corpsmen from the Revolutionary War to today.
ARNOLDSCHE
(dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Germans in America (Mar., $70) by Gunther Klotzer presents 62 portraits of émigrés from all walks of life.
BARRON'S
1001 Inventions That Changed the World (Mar., $35), edited by Jack Challoner. Photos and illustrations complement summaries of each invention.
BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL
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The New York Times Book of New York (June, $27.95), edited by James Barron, celebrates every aspect of the city that never sleeps.
BLUEBRIDGE
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The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Apr., $24.95) by Geoffrey Moorhouse chronicles the religious upheaval caused by the English Reformation.
BRANDEIS UNIV. PRESS
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All-Out for Victory!: Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front (May, $50) by John Bush Jones examines wartime ads' roles in sustaining morale.
BRIGHT SKY PRESS
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The Paper Republic: The Struggle for Money, Credit and Independence in the Republic of Texas (Apr., $39.95) by Jim Bevill discusses the history of the currency used to fund the Texan war machine.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS
John Brown's War Against Slavery (June, $35) by Robert E. McGlone studies the abolitionist who helped bring about the American Civil War.
CASEMATE PUBLISHING
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost (May, $32.95) by Daniel Allen Butler recounts the disaster from the vantage point of nearby vessels.
CHICAGO REVIEW/LAWRENCE HILL BOOKS
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Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes (July, $26.95) by James L. Dickerson and Alex A. Alston Jr. investigates these crimes, delayed justice and the state's attempts at atonement.
CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (May, $24.95) by Matthew Algeo details the ex-president's misguided attempts at a cross-country journey.
COLLINS LIVING
Amazing Tales of Making Men Out of Boys (May, $25.99) by Neil Oliver features stories of heroism, exploration and sacrifice.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
History of the Mafia (Aug., $29.95) by Salvatore Lupo, trans. by Antony Shugaar, charts the infamous secret society's trajectory from 1860 to today.
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows (Apr., $22.95) by Kathleen Collins explores how these programs reflect and shape cultural change.
CROWN
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army (June, $25.95) by Stephan Talty describes how the emperor's forces succumbed to an eons-old parasite. 75,000 first printing.
CROWN FORUM
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution (Apr., $35) by Steven F. Hayward. This final volume considers Reagan's effect on political life. 30,000 first printing.
DA CAPO PRESS
Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire (Mar., $27.95) by Gerard Koeppel outlines a history of the waterway and the consequences of its completion.
IVAN R. DEE
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No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings—A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics (Mar., $27.50) by Robert Shogan recalls the 1954 proceedings.
ECCO
The Rise and Fall of Communism (July, $35.95) by Archie Brown examines the ideology's origins, subsequent collapse in many nations and current incarnations. 50,000 first printing.
FAIR WINDS PRESS
The War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns (July, $30) by Joseph Cummins depicts multiple conflicts.
FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration (Mar., $39.95) by Kathleen Eagen Johnson commemorates 1909's two-week riverfront festival that stretched from Brooklyn to Albany, N.Y.
FREE PRESS
My Hope for Peace (Mar., $25) by Jehan Sadat. The Egyptian president's widow calls for an end to conflict in the Middle East.
Fateful Crescent (Aug., $26) by Vali Nasr declares that the key to improved U.S.—Middle East relations is a focus on the region's rising business class.
GILES
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BIG! Big Records, Big Events and Big Ideas in American History (May, $29.95) by Stacey Bredhoff celebrates the 75th anniversary of the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
GROVE PRESS
Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World, 1776—1914 (Apr., $27.50) by Gavin Weightman illustrates innovation through the lives of inventors, spies and entrepreneurs.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (Mar., $25.95) by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor studies Russian Orthodox Name Worshipping monks, who attempted to understand infinity.
HISTORY PRESS
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The Age of Emperors and The Later Roman Republic (June, $34.95 each) by Brian Taylor, volumes 2 and 3 of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, 753 B.C.—476 A.D., a Chronology series, explore the period marked by a near continuous conflict between slave uprisings and empire building, republicans and dictators.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Practicing Catholic (Apr., $28) by James Carroll examines America's impact on the Church's transformation. 75,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
INDIANA UNIV. PRESS
Refugees and Rescue (June, $29.95), edited by Richard Breitman et al., explores America's policies under FDR.
INNER TRADITIONS/BEAR & CO.
The Earth Chronicles Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Seven Books of the Earth Chronicles (May, $24) by Zecharia Sitchin. This compendium of myths and events reveals the influence of the Anunnaki.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
Lighter than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships (Apr., $35) by Tom D. Crouch chronicles flight from Archimedes's discovery to the latest innovations.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft (Mar., $24.95), edited by Edward Steers Jr. and Harold Holzer, depicts the incarceration of Booth's alleged accomplices.
MODERN LIBRARY
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Apr., $21) by Margaret MacMillan shows the way history—and its manipulation—affects everyone.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Blood, Sweat and Steam: The Story of Britain's Railway Age (Aug., $36) draws on archival collections and railway records of Victorian Britain.
NATION BOOKS
Mirrors: An Almost Universal History (June, $25.95) by Eduardo Galeano, trans. by Mark Fried. Hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes offer an epic portrait of the human adventure.
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS
Network-Centric Warfare (Mar., $29.95) by Norman Friedman illustrates the U.S. adoption of a military style utilizing a real-time, shared picture of a situation.
NEW PRESS
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation (May, $35) by Ray Raphael. Seven disparate historical figures retell the story of our country's founding.
NYU PRESS
Babysitter: An American History (July, $29.95) by Miriam Forman-Brunell examines these caregivers from the 1920s on using historical and pop cultural references.
Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx (Aug., $27.95) by Connie Rosenblum tracks the changing neighborhood.
OLD STREET PUBLISHING
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Dancing on Ice: A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk and Reckless Folly (Apr., $26) by Jeremy Scott depicts a 1930 Arctic expedition that sought an air route over the ice cap.
OVERLOOK PRESS
Words That Ring Through Time (Aug., $30) by Terry Golway places 50 famous speeches in the context of the events that inspired them.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
When the Rivers Ran Red: The Great Dawn of the American Wine Industry (June, $26.95) by Vivienne Sosnowski explores the California vintners' battle against Prohibition.
POWERHOUSE BOOKS
Spacesuits: Within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (June, $35) by Amanda Young charts the garments' development from the 1930s through the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz program.
PROFILE BOOKS
(dist. by Consortium)
The Fourteenth of July (June, $24.95) by Christopher Prendergast recounts the Bastille's reputation, its storming and the momentous aftermath.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (June, $26.95) by Mark Wortman treats a pivotal moment in the defeat of the Confederacy.
PURDUE UNIV. PRESS
Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th-Century Press (May; $64.95, paper $32.95), edited by David B. Sachsman et al., chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life.
RIVERHEAD
The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre—World War II America (May, $27.95) by Mark Kurlansky presents a culinary and social history.
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York (July, $24.95) by Elizabeth L. Bradley considers Dietrich Knickerbocker, the antihero and standard-bearer for New York “attitude.”
SANTA MONICA PRESS
Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from World War II (May, $24.95) by Jonna Doolittle Hoppes profiles ordinary people performing extraordinary tasks after Pearl Harbor.
SCRIBNER
Horse Soldiers (May, $28) by Doug Stanton offers a tale of men at war overcoming great odds to survive. 250,000 first printing.
SOURCEBOOKS
Triumvirate: The Story of the Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation (May, $24.95) by Bruce Chadwick recounts the founding fathers' battle to create a unified America.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
(dist. by CDC)
The Shiloh Campaign (May, $24.95), edited by Steven E. Woodworth, collects essays that illuminate this decisive Civil War offensive.
STACKPOLE BOOKS
The American GI in Europe in World War II: D-Day—Storming Ashore (May, $29.95) by J.E. Kauffman and H.W. Kauffman. Firsthand accounts of American soldiers recall this momentous event.
STERLING
Becoming American: The African-American Journey (Mar., $12.95) by Howard Dodson. The director of New York City's Schomburg Center outlines the role played by people of African descent.
STERLING/HEARST
Big Ideas: 100 Inventions That Have Changed Our World (May, $17.95) by Alex Hutchinson unveils the modern era's greatest discoveries.
STERLING/UNION SQUARE
War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder (May, $24.95) by Simon Read details the shooting by San Francisco Chronicle publisher Charles De Young of mayoral candidate Rev. Isaac Kalloch in 1879.
ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE
Rescue Warriors (May, $25.95) by David Helvarg traces the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from its founding in 1799 to the present. 60,000 first printing.
TEMPUS
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Love Letters from a Desert Rat: 'Alex and Nan' (Mar., $37.95) by Liz MacIntyre. After her mother's death, the author discovered 300 letters from her father detailing his WWII service.
THAMES & HUDSON
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual (June, $24.95) by Philip Matyszak. A how-to format provides a vivid description of life in the Roman legions.
TWELVE
Columbine (Apr., $26.99) by Dave Cullen draws portraits of the killers, the victims and the community that suffered one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones (Mar., $34.95) by Gary Y. Okihi ranges from Renaissance European greenhouses to Hawaii's Dole Company.
UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (Apr., $16) by Robert Pinsky explores these towns' attitudes and atmosphere from the early 19th century through WWII.
UNIV. OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America (Mar., $34.95) by William McKee Evans contrasts the paradox of democracy against a centuries-old system of oppression.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution (Apr., $35) by Lars Schoultz analyzes the history of U.S-Cuban relations, pointing to new prospects for the new century.
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald (June, $27.95) by Harold J. Weiss Jr. celebrates the most famous of the “Four Captains.”
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910—1950 (Apr., $60) by James R. Lothian describes a close-knit group that was inspired by Hilaire Belloc's ideology.
UNIV. OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience (May, $45) by Daniel L. Rust emphasizes the personal experience of commercial flight.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (Mar., $22.95) by Clarence Walker uses the liaison as starting point for a series of historical reflections on race, sex and country.
UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country (Apr., $35) by Marsha L. Weisiger recalls the U.S. government's 1920s decision to eradicate most livestock held by Arizona's Navajo people.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
The Trail of Gold and Silver: Colorado Mining 1859—2009 (June, $26.95) by Duane A. Smith outlines how mining for precious metals changed the state and its people forever.
UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (May, $39.95) by Allan J. McDonald with James R. Hansen looks at the tragedy and its aftermath.
VIKING
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (Mar., $27.95) by James Mann analyzes the president's role in the crumbling of Soviet power. 4-city author tour.
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (July, $27.95) by Craig Nelson celebrates the Apollo 11 mission on the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing.
WALKER & COMPANY
An Edible History of Humanity (May, $26) by Tom Standage views the evolution of our species through the foods we eat.
WAYNE STATE UNIV. PRESS
Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation (Apr., $34.95) by Anthony J. Yanik recalls the Detroit automaker.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Mar., $24) by Susan Jacoby views the McCarthy-era trial and verdict as a mirror of shifting American political views.
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (May, $32.50) by Adrian Golds—worthy explains how a seemingly unassailable empire rotted from within.
