Category: History

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Through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was a fact universally acknowledged that any man in want of a

The most highly regarded and affordable history of Latin America for our times. Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has

Raised in 1943 with 17-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and “Tunisgrad”, the

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West

How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the

How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning – and how our deadliest germs

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