Tag Archives: United States/19th Century
The Great Divorce
by Ilyon Woo“Modern Americans, bombarded with stories of celebrity divorces, probably assume that the tabloid breakup is a recent phenomenon. This lively, well-written and engrossing tale…
A Few Stout Individuals
by John Guare“Vivacious. Individuals is . . . so unmistakably the product of Mr. Guare’s exotic yet very American imagination.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
America’s Lost Treasure
by Tommy ThompsonThis volume shows the successful recovery of artifacts from a ship that sank in 1857 carrying gold from the rich California mines.