Category: History

About Time

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome

John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him

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