Plagues upon the Earth
How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning – and how our deadliest germs
Category: History
About Time
For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome
The Teachings of Don Juan
For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western
Thomas Paine
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him
Abraham Lincoln
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the greatest living Civil War historian. In this
The Allies
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin – the three
How Do We Look
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history
Isis and Osiris
Isis and Osiris have never trusted their brother Set. When Set hosts a huge banquet for Osiris, Isis is worried.
Antiquity
Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world – from the birth of Sumerian
The Fate of Rome
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental
Athens
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound
The Fall of Rome
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as
