History | History
Jan.05.2009
Spanish edition of Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America.
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Dec.16.2008
The popular, well-illustrated 103-page book, first published in 1993 and reprinted in 1998, provides basic information about the Library's history, collections and buildings. It is available for $11 only from the Library of Congress Sales Shop, Washington, DC 20540-4985. To order by credit card,...
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Nov.06.2008
Hoffman here proves herself a first-rate guide to Eastern Europe, offering vivid snapshots of conditions in the former Soviet satellites. Visiting her native Poland, she spends time with the co-editor of one of the country's most successful newspapers, who describes her hellish past hiding in the...
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Nov.06.2008
The incredible true story of the Cabeza de Vaca's 1528 expedition to North America. Four hundred landed near Tampa, Florida in 1528 and promptly disappeared into the swamps. All were assumed to be dead, but eight years later three Spaniards and an African, the only survivors, appeared on the...
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Nov.06.2008
A narrative history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. "A happy blend of the dramatic, the colorful, the outlandish and the monumental," said Paul Theroux in his review of the book for the New York Times. "Quite simply, the most entertaining history about our part of the...
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Nov.06.2008
A narrative history the Adirondack region of New York, from the glaciers to the subdividers. "A biography of a place, a life of the Adirondacks," said the New York Times in its review of the book. "The park's story comes to life in his hands."
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Nov.06.2008
A biography of the legendary outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde. "Extraordinarily immediate, not to mention lurid," said the Los Angeles Times reviewer. "So intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism," said O, the Oprah Magazine.
Using a broad range of historical documents, including...
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Nov.05.2008
This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.
From Publisher's Weekly:
Daughter of Holocaust survivors, the author, a New York...
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Nov.05.2008
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she...
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Nov.05.2008
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's...
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