History

"All warfare is based on deception. Thus, when able to attack, we must seem unable. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and cr...

"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost...

Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a ...

On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared war upon Mexico. Although the MexicanAmerican War lasted only 18 month, its consequences...

Written by Alexander Hamilton, John Madison and John Jay - three of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America - The Federalist Pap...

Amazing Stories of Courage, Bravery, and Survival in a World at War. Follow in the footsteps of the brave Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Mari...

"...with the dead body of his son for company on the last half of the trip and himself delirious with Spanish influenza..."“...take the...

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philoso...

America's fight against radical Islam could soon be over, and a top secret plan from the Cold War is the key to our victory. Dr. Sebastia...

In 1764, Britain imposed the first of several taxes with the Sugar Act. This was followed by the Stamp Act and the Townshend Revenue Act. In ...

A superb work of intellectual history, this slim volume by one of today's foremost theologians takes you through the mind and times of Europe...

"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as...

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw ...

It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during...

Read by Eric Conger2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of ...

The two most treasured documents of American freedom together on one audiobook.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are crea...

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.In the spring of 1804, at the ...

Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and...

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished his...

Learn how you can apply the main lessons & principles from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind in a quick, easy listen!In Sapiens: A Brief ...

Few books in history have been as important or as poorly understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhamm...

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular...

A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone...

The President recently announced that we don't have a strategy for dealing with ISIS. "It's too soon to say what steps the United States wil...

The writings of Josephus contain one of the few historical accounts we have of the wars of the Jews and the first destruction of Jerusalem by...

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. This is the document which defines the rights and respon...

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make ...

When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo intr...

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act t...

In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century A...

The United States Constitution established both a strong central power and protected states rights. But to say that something is of two parts...

C. F. McGlashan was the newspaper editor and publisher of the local daily in Truckee, California, the closest town to the Donner Pass. Over t...

The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ran...

A rip current overturned the whaleboat with eight Kanaka Christians aboard. Only three of the men could swim, and the others clung to the upt...

The amazing immediacy of yesterday's headlines brings to life the sinking of that magnificent luxury liner, the Titanic. Re-live the trauma w...

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European n...

 “Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.” – Mad Anthony Wayne The American Revolution is replete with seminal ...

In these reallife stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who live and die by an American cotton mill. In 2001...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-...

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, inclu...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the real history of guns ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Celts, then pay attention...Today, the word Celtic means so many things. To most of us...

Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputat...

As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, an...

David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.U...

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events as The 2...

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining ...

Nazca, once only an isolated settlement in the midst of the Peruvian desert, is today the meeting place for archaeologists from around the wo...

James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), e...

In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, which are commonly referred to as The Bill of Rights. These were the guarant...