Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre

5 best books like Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre (John Prebble): Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, The Woman Warrior, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, Insurrection, Renegade

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Author	Nell Irvin Painter
ISBN	1640090614

How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seeing change, depending upon what is asked of the viewer? What does it mean when someone states (as one teacher does) that "you will never be an Artist"—who defines "an Artist," and all that goes with such an...

The Woman Warrior

Author	Maxine Hong Kingston
ISBN	0679721886

This was an intense book full of both women's power and violence against women set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution and the emigration of many Chinese people fleeing Mao to California. It is a mixture of autobiography and folklore and is beautifully written. Maxine Hong Kingston received...

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Author	Adam Winkler
ISBN	0871407124

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to gain equal rights...

Insurrection

Author	Robyn Young
ISBN	0340963654

1286 A.D. Scotland is in the grip of the worst winter in living memory. Some say the Day of Judgement has arrived. The King of Scotland rides out from Edinburgh into the stormy night. On the road he is murdered by one of his own men, leaving the succession to the throne wide open. Civil war threatens as the...

Renegade

Author	Robyn Young
ISBN	0340963670

King Edward of England marches on Scotland, his campaign to unite the British Isles under one crown inspired by an Arthurian prophecy. He has already crushed Wales; now he needs only find the Staff of St Malachy, symbol of Irish nationhood, to achieve his implacable desire.
One man alone can thwart...