History

Silbert gives lost lives new voices as she describes in exacting, often witty detail the world of Eastern European Jews newly arrived in turn-of-the century America.

This 1893 survey ranks among the most influential and important books about the impact of frontier life on a transplanted civilization. The author examines the frontier's role in promoting self-reliance, independence, democracy, immigration, and westward expansion. Students, teachers, historians, and ...

and how the first ever Christmas tree arrived in England, courtesy of Prince Albert.Re-live a bygone era of merrymaking and indulge in Mrs Beeton's Christmas cake recipe or read Charles Dickens's memories of boyhood celebrations.

Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe-a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time. When war broke out in Europe in August ...

From the emergence of hominids millions of years ago, up to the present day, this book is a huge compilation of facts, features, and images covering all aspects of human history. The History of the World records significant world events, presented as chronologically listed entries, running across the ...

In 410 AD Rome was overrun by barbarians. But what really happened as the lights of Europe went out and the dark ages began?

Classic of ethnology traces origins, history, influence of the Celts: migration into Europe and as far west as British Isles; treatment of Celtic languages and their relationship to other tongues; archaeological evidence from Iron Age settlement at Switzerland's La Tène, and other cultures; expansion ...

The Timechart is colour coded to represent six geographical continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia & Oceania. Following the color for any one of these continents reveals a stream of revolutions and internal conflicts occurring through history in that part of the ...

The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, ...

Ruth Ive, then a young stenographer working in the Ministry of Information, had the job of censoring the line, and she spent the rest of the war listening in to the conversations across the Atlantic, ready to cut the line if anything was said that might compromise security.

The Armory Chamber, a part of the Moscow Kremlin historical and cultural complex, is the oldest museum in Russia. Its collection consists of the rarest productions of Russian and foreign masters from the fourth to the twentieth centuries, the most important part of which is the collection of arms and ...

An examination of the fall of Saigon, a major historical watershed. It recounts the chain of events leading up to this event, and the repercussions, both immediate and long-term. It also evaluates the concept of a turning point, assessing in what way this event really was one.

In this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the...

The ?Elite Attack Forces? series looks at the cutting edge of war, units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each book in the series examines two units: their orgins and history; their organization, order of battle and how this changed; their battle history, theater ...

Neil Oliver goes beyond their bloody reputation to search for the truth about the Vikings - from Newfoundland to Moscow, Iceland to Istanbul.

World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long, notable improvements in weaponry and equipment and the first example of tanks being used in battle. This book examines the day-to-day lives ...

Aces is an illustrated history of the brave World War II fighter pilots who earned the title of ace, with archival and modern photos of their aircraft.

Overturning conventional thinking, this book reveals how the very notion of "culture" developed in response to the industrial revolution, and analyzes its treatment by such writers as Burke, Ruskin, Arnold, Shaw, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Orwell.

An examination of the life of the controversial mystic Hindiyya 'Ujaymi and what her story reveals of the religious and political climate of eighteenth-century Lebanon. Translated by Renee Champion.

This book covers the period between the creation in 1936 of Fighter Command and the end of WWII. It purports to demonstrate how a dangerously outmoded structure was transformed through the impetus of a feral aerial conflict into an operational force that effectively challenged and finally helped bring about the Luftwaffe's comprehensive demise.