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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The United States emerged from the American Revolution still entangled in old world politics. In particular, America faced all the trade rest...

World War II reshaped the map of the world. As Europe exhausted itself in yet another war, two new nations, with conflicting ideologies, were...

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I but with greater violence and less regard for the values of civiliz...

After WWII, Korea was divided in half at the 38th parallel. To the north were the Communists; to the south were the United Nations peacekeepi...

In 1540, Mexico was declared to be New Spain. With a diverse culture and great natural resources, it should have prospered like its northern ...

Dan Lyons resigned as Dean of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington to become the free world's leading advocate of winning the war in Vie...

In 1895 Cuba began its struggle for independence from Spaina struggle that resulted in a demand for US involvement. This demand gained intens...

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United S...

The sinking of the plane was like a magicians trick. It was there and then it was gone, and there was nothing left in our big, wet, darkening...

Seven days in hellIn June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, ...

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. As an FNG paratrooper in ...

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route thr...

“…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, ...

Watching his father perform medical procedures back in India had convinced Paul that medicine was about blood and guts and ulcers. To his ama...

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

These thought-provoking teachings from respected American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the s...

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