Lost to Time Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

by Sandler, Martin W.

• ISBN13: 9781402729584
• ISBN10: 1402729588
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

Were the Wright brothers the first to fly? Did Paul Revere perform the most important midnight ride of the American Revolution? Was the Titanic the greatest peacetime maritime disaster? The answers may surprise you. From the medieval world to the epic battles of World War II, Lost to Time highlights a number of history's most fascinating and consequential-but unjustly forgotten-people and events. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Martin W. Sandler has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for The Story of American Photography: An Illustrated History for Young People, and seven Emmy Awards. He is the author of more than fifty books, including Sterling's Atlantic Ocean and Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship. His best-selling Library of Congress American History series has sold more than 500,000 copies. For television, Mr. Sandler was creator and cowriter for the acclaimed This Was America series, hosted by William Shatner. Other television programs and series for which Sandler was executive producer and writer include Excellence in the Public Sector (starring Tom Peters), American Treasure (starring Gene Kelly), and The Entrepreneurs (starring Robert Mitchum). He has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts and Smith College.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Slave Who Changed Society (Ninth Century)	p. 1
The Forgotten Rome of the Americas (Twelfth Century)	p. 19
Conquering the Point of No Return (1434)	p. 41
Architect of a Revolution (1741-75)	p. 55
Outdoing Revere: History's Forgotten Riders (1777)	p. 85
America's Greatest Hero (1847-57)	p. 109
The Sultana: Death on the Great River (1865)	p. 135
America's First Subway: Secrets under Broadway (1870)	p. 153
Great Fire in the Forest (1871)	p. 181
The First to Fly? (1901)	p. 207
Exercise Tiger: A Rehearsal for D-Day (1944)	p. 229
Acknowledgments	p. 253
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 279
Photo Credits	p. 290
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