HISTORY
ALGONQUIN
Reprint: In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the WhaleshipSharon (Apr., $14.95) by Joan Druett.
ALTAMIRA PRESS
The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community (June; $29.95, cloth $75) by Luke Eric Lassiter et al. uncovers the story of Middletown, aka Muncie, Ind.
ANCHOR
Reprint: Gulag (May, $16.95) by Anne Applebaum.
ATRIA
Somebody's Daughter: The Story of Frances Langer (June, $14) by Bob Welch identifies the first American nurse to die at Normandy. Author publicity.
Reprint: Glory, Passion, and Principle (Mar., $14) by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer.
BARRICADE
Madison and Jefferson on the Separation of Church and State (May, $16.95), edited by Lenni Brenner, collects writings from the two presidents, who strongly supported this position.
BASIC BOOKS
Reprint: Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Apr., $16.95) by Niall Ferguson. 50,000 first printing.
BIRLINN PUBLISHING (dist. by Interlink)
Scottish Smugglers (Apr., $15) by Gavin D. Smith examines the long history of smuggling in Scotland.
JOHN F. BLAIR
Black Indian Slave Narratives (June, $10.95), edited by Patrick Minges, collects interviews by the Federal Writers' Project during the 1930s on slaves of African-American and Native American descent.
BRASSEY'S
Chicago's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities (May, $12.95) by Laura L. Enright examines the colorful history and urban legends of the Windy City.
CAXTON PRESS (cschuppan@caxtonpress.com)
The Lewis and Clark Trail, Yesterday and Today (June, $14.95) by William E. Hill compares the trail as traveled by the explorers to the trail today.
CHECKMARK BOOKS
A Brief History of Argentina by Jonathan C. Brown and A Brief History of Bolivia by Waltraud Q. Morales (both Apr., $19.95 each) are new entries in the series.
COLLINS PRESS (dist. by Dufour Editions)
Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740—1922 (Mar., $37.95) by Frank Nugent describes achievements in the Arctic and Antarctic.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
A History of New York (July, $22.50) by François Weil, trans. by Jody Gladding, chronicles New York City's development from a provincial town to a global city.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Outgunned!: True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up to Outlaws—and Won (June, $14.95) by Robert A. Waters and John T. Waters Jr. documents stories of notorious outlaws captured or killed by townspeople.
DOWNEAST BOOKS
Around Cape Horn (May, $14.95) by Charles G. Davis, edited by Neal Parker, recollects an 1892 voyage aboard the James A. Wright.
DUKE UNIV. PRESS
Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists (May, $23.95) by David H. Price reveals those who were publicly and privately persecuted during the red scares of the 1940s and '50s.
FIREFLY
Treasure Lost at Sea: Diving to the World's Great Shipwrecks (Mar., $24.95) by Robert F. Marx with Jennifer Marx recounts the major periods of exploration and the geographic locations of wrecks found.
FREE PRESS
Reprint: To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (May, $16) by James Tobin.
FULCRUM
Red Exodus, White Destiny: The Tragic Story of the Ute Indians (Mar., $17.95) by Peter R. Decker recounts the drama of a proud Indian people swept away by 19th-century pioneer settlements.
GALLAUDET UNIV. PRESS
Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer (June, $29.95) by Harry G. Lang. As a homesteader, California Gold Rush participant and local newspaper editor, Booth epitomized the 19th-century pioneer with one difference—he was deaf.
GILES (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Churchill and the Great Republic: Winston Churchill in America (Mar., $19.95) by Mary Churchill Soames and Sir Martin Gilbert. Churchill's correspondence sheds light on the relationship between the British leader and the U.S.
GLOBE PEQUOT
Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries Throughout New England (July, $14.95) by Lisa Rogak is a guide to significant burial grounds in all six New England states.
GROVE PRESS
Reprint: Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (Apr., $15) by George Crile. 125,000 first printing.
HARCOURT
Reprint: Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster (May, $14) by Melissa Fay Green.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Apr., $18.95) by John Stauffer draws on correspondence of blacks and whites from the Civil War era to study the struggle between the ideals of justice and the reality of oppressive slavery.
HIPPOCRENE BOOKS
California: An Illustrated History (May, $14.95) by Robert J. Chandler depicts the state's entire story.
Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City (June, $16.95) by Thomas Eccardt examines the history, culture and governments.
HYPERION
Reprints: Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes (May, $14.95) by Kenneth T. Walsh, 50,000 first printing; A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (May, $16.95), edited by Caroline Kennedy, 150,000 first printing.
INTERLINK
My Jerusalem: Essays, Reminiscences, and Poems (May, $20), edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, brings the city to life.
ISI BOOKS
Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge—A Reader (Aug., $18), edited by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson, organizes Lukacs's diverse writings on history. Advertising.
JUSTIN, CHARLES & Co.
Reprint: Gin: The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva—The Eighteenth-Century Gin Craze (Apr., $14.99) by Patrick Dillon.
LITTLE, BROWN/BACK BAY
Reprint: Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Aug., $14.95) by R.A. Scotti.
LYONS PRESS
Bloody Sunday: How Michael Collins' Squad Assassinated Britain's Secret Service in Dublin on November 21, 1920 (Mar., $12.95) by James Gleeson details the crucial event in Ireland's struggle for independence.
Collision Course (Aug., $14.95) by Al Moscow relives the accident at sea between the ships Andrea Doria and the Stockholm.
MERCER UNIV. PRESS
The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 (Apr., $16) by Bill and Fran Marscher details the courage of South Carolina's Gullah communities during the second most fatal hurricane in U.S. history.
MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING
Discovering Lewis and Clark from the Air (Mar., $20) by Joseph A. Mussulman, photos by Jim Wark, pictures the land that Lewis and Clark crossed in full-color aerial photographs.
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Reprint: In the Company of Heroes (May, $14) by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov.
NEW HOLLAND (dist. by Sterling)
Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt (May, $14.95) by Aidan Dodson brings the history of hieroglyphs to life.
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
CLASSICS
The Bog People (Apr., $14) by P.V. Glob details the discovery in a Danish peat bog of a 2,000-year-old male corpse presumed sacrificed to the goddess of fertility.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Reprint: Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges (Mar., $17.95) by Deirdre Chetham.
PELICAN
Civil War in Kansas (Apr., $9.95) by Roy Bird relates the history of the state's abolitionist/proslavery conflict.
PENGUIN
Reprints: The Chinese in America: A Narrative History (Apr., $15) by Iris Chang, 150,000 first printing; The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (July, $15) by Caroline Alexander, 200,000 first printing.
PERENNIAL
Reprints: Don't Know Much About History (Apr., $13.95) by Kenneth C. Davis, 75,000 first printing; Krakatoa (Apr., $13.95) by Simon Winchester, 200,000 first printing.
PINEAPPLE PRESS
Apalachicola Bay (Mar., $18.95) by Kevin M. McCarthy explores Florida's "Forgotten Coast."
POCKET/PARAVIEW
Watermark (June, $14) by Joseph Christy-Vitale investigates the earth's cosmic origins and humanity's pre—Ice Age history.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Naked Olympics: The Original Games of Ancient Greece (June, $12.95) by Tony Perrottet re-creates the sporting extravaganza from ancient spectators' point of view.
Reprint: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (Apr., $12.95) by Bernard Lewis.
REAKTION BOOKS
Smoke: A Cultural History of Smoking Around the World (Aug., $40) by Sander Gilman is a comprehensive history.
The Origin of the World: A History of the Vagina (June, $29.95) by Jelto Drenth examines the history, anatomy, anthropology and biology of female sexuality.
LYNNE RIENNER
Europe Recast: A History of European Union (May, $23.50) by Desmond Dinan offers a history of European integration from the 1940s to the present.
ROUGH GUIDES
The Rough Guide to the History of Ireland (Mar.) and ...Greece (June, $12.99 each) provide travelers and the curious with historical background.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South (May; $24.95, cloth $72) by Cynthia Griggs Fleming observes the struggle for equality by the citizens of Wilcox County, Ala.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Voices of a People's History of the United States (June; $21.95, cloth $35.95) by Howard Zinn. Among the voices found in these pages are Frederick Douglass, Patti Smith, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mark Twain. 60,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Reprint: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 (Mar., $14) by Roy Morris Jr.
SOURCEBOOKS
Reprint: Jefferson's Great Gamble (Mar., $14.95) by Charles Cerami. 40,000 first printing.
STANFORD UNIV. PRESS
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers (Apr., $29.95) by Richard Steven Street follows the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture.
STERLING
Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook (Mar., $14.95) by Ruth Schumann-Antelme and Stéphane Rossini explains more than 200 hieroglyphics.
TEMPLE UNIV. PRESS
Brooklyn: An Illustrated History (July, $24.95) by Ellen Snyder-Grenier highlights the people, events and places that define Brooklyn.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
On the River with Lewis and Clark (Apr.; $17.95, cloth $40) by Verne Huser takes a water-level view of the famous expedition.
The Western River Steamboat (Apr.; $19.95, cloth $39.95) by Adam I. Kane traces the development of this once commonplace boat.
TILBURY HOUSE
Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians (Mar., $20) by Neil Rolde discusses controversies over casinos, sovereign rights and settlements of land claims.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State (Mar., $26.95) by Harvey H. Jackson III offers an insider's perspective. Author tour.
UNIV. OF ARIZONA PRESS
Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona (Mar., $17.95) by Patricia Preciado Martin, photos by José Galvez, documents the resilient relationship between Mexican-Americans and their homeland.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Massachusetts at a Glance (June; $19.95, cloth $80) by Jack Tager is an A-to-Z guide to the heritage and current attractions of the Bay State.
Letters from the Invalid Corps: The Civil War Correspondence of Colonel Charles F. Johnson (Aug.; $24.95, cloth $80), edited by Fred Pelka, tells the story of disabled combat veterans who continued to serve in the Union Army.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (May; $18.95, cloth $49.95) by Jerma A. Jackson establishes 20th-century black gospel music as both sacred and an important source of black identity.
UNIV. OF UTAH PRESS
The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl R. Bendetsen, Perry H. Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II (Apr.; $21.95, cloth $55) by Klancy Clark de Nevers recalls the internment of Americans of Japanese descent from the perspectives of the army colonel who ordered their removal and one of the incarcerated victims.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Archeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia (Mar., $19.95) by William M. Kelso looks at 200 years of life in Kingsmill, Va.
UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA
Magazines that Make History: Their Origins, Development, and Continuing Influence (June, $45) by Norberto Angelletti and Alberto Oliva looks at eight publications of continuing distinction including Time, National Geographic, Reader's Digest and People.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Apr.; $12.95, cloth $29.95) by Howard Ball examines the landmark legal dimensions as seen in the movie Mississippi Burning.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America (Apr., $16) by William E. Odom discusses problems and solutions regarding American intelligence.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn (May, $19.95) by Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck takes a tour of 90 areas of Brooklyn.
