A collection of photographic images from the last decade covers the most significant events and trends of the 1980s--including the Challenger disaster, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the crash on Wall Street, and others. National ad/promo.

The Eighties: Images of America

Virga, Vincent

Harpercollins

A landmark collection featuring rare and sensational images of the Civil War. At a time before the camera lens could capture the frenzy and terror of battle action, illustrators known as “Special Artists”―among them such famous draftsmen as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast―created for the American public some of the most important and lasting images of the Civil War. Reporting for newspapers like Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News, the Specials brought a visceral immediacy to the clash, presenting rich and nuanced images of soldiers in the camps and sweeping panoramas of the great battles. The illustrations span the war and its many theaters, including rarely seen views of Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg, and the famous stampede of Union soldiers fleeing the Rebels at Bull Run. Gathering these images for the first time in fifty years, Civil War Sketch Book gives readers the sense that they are touching history, for the illustrations (some even stained with soldiers’ blood) represent priceless artifacts from our nation’s greatest conflict. 250 color illustrations

Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront

History

Katz, Harry L.

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Never before has America's past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation profits from seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley, but at its core is a bountiful narrative-in-pictures drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress. In vivid and inclusive fashion, the book proceeds from the first encounters of Europeans and Indians, through colonial days and the founding of the nation, industrialization and the western expansion, and the catastrophes and transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, right up to the present. Thanks to the brilliant art selection by Vincent Virga and the Library's Curators, every stage of the nation's development, every swerve in its fortunes, assumes arresting visual form. Appearing alongside such pivotal artifacts as an Indian treaty from 1714, a wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, and a naval dispatch from 1941 ("AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS NOT A DRILL") are fascinating nuggets of popular culture and social history: an eighteen-pence note from 1776, the first telegraphic tape, a 1915 advertisement for the Pierce-Arrow automobile, a Pogo comic strip attacking Joseph McCarthy. Renowned American artists of every era--from John James Audubon and Matthew Brady to Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper, and Dorothea Lange to Robert Rauschenberg and Jennifer Bartlett--are exquisitely represented. Full, detailed captions accompany the images, and albumlike interludes explore four elemental themes of the American experience: the garden, the river, the city, and our people. In this audacious and sophisticated approach to the show-and-telling of history--as visual as it is textual, as thorough as it is irresistibly anecdotal--Eyes of the Nation is without peer.

Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

KNOPF

A stirring trip through the history of the Golden State through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress
- 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress
- Informative captions on each map's origins
- Essays by California author Ray Jones on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time
- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library's collection and the state's maps
About Mapping States Through History
This is the first series to assemble―in full color, state-by-state―an in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America's fifty states. Produced in collaboration with the Library of Congress and edited by renowned photo editor and author Vincent Virga, these books offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through the maps and their narrative captions. Each map thus becomes a virtual time machine that tells us much about the places we live in today. Compelling historical essays by a local writer complement Virga's foreword to further help weave the cartographic record into a drama of settlement and change.

California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Jones, Ray

Globe Pequot

Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of Colorado from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on Centennial State history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of state history for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Colorado: Mapping the Centennial State through History: Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Grace, Stephen

A stirring trip through the history of the Lone Star State through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress
- 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress
- Informative captions on each map’s origins
- Essays by Texas author Don Blevins on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time
- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library’s collection and the state’s maps
About Mapping States Through History
This is the first series to assemblein full color, state-by-statean in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America’s fifty states. Produced in collaboration with the Library of Congress and edited by renowned photo editor and author Vincent Virga, these books offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through the maps and their narrative captions. Each map thus becomes a virtual time machine that tells us much about the places we live in today. Compelling historical essays by a local writer complement Virga’s foreword to further help weave the cartographic record into a drama of settlement and change.

Texas: Mapping the Lone Star State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Blevins, Don

Globe Pequot Press

Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Commonwealth of Virginia from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Virginia for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Virginia: Mapping the Old Dominion State through History: Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Hines, Emilee

These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.

Connecticut: Mapping the Nutmeg State through History: Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

McCain, Diana Ross

These books, produced from the archives ofthe Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.

Florida: Mapping the Sunshine State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Wright, E. Lynne

These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Prairie State from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Illinois maps, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Illinois for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State through History: Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress (Mapping the States through History)

Cohn, Scotti

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