American History: A Reading

Althea McDowell Altemus’s memoir, Big Bosses: A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America, edited by Professor of History Robin F. Bachin, presents a one-of-a-kind peek inside the excitement & challenges of being a woman and a professional during the roaring ‘20s. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital is a riveting history of New York’s iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine, from Pulitzer prize-winning author, David Oshinsky. In Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series) Mike Wallace captures the rise of New York from national to global prominence. Robert P. Watson’s The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story from the American Revolution tells the story of the most horrific struggle of the American Revolution, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.