Category: History

Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the greatest living Civil War historian. In this

Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin – the three

From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history

Isis and Osiris have never trusted their brother Set. When Set hosts a huge banquet for Osiris, Isis is worried.

Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world – from the birth of Sumerian

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental

A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as

Why is it that our current AD 21st century is so similar to the 21st century BC? Is history destined

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives