History

Central Europes ancient civilizations have long been dominated by empires: The Roman Empi...

We all know that murder, lying, and stealing are wrong. Many of us have also made up our ...

Individual rights morally protect a person against oppression by the powerful (such as th...

In this informative, iconoclastic book, veteran foreign correspondent Martin Sieff offers...

Kelly Perdewwinner of The Apprentice 2has it what it takes to lead. His secret weapon: th...

A National Book Awardwinning historian brilliantly portrays Henry Clays heroic brokering ...

Peggy Noonan, a speechwriter for the Reagan White House and one of our most astute politi...

11 Days in December tells the unforgettable story of one of the grimmest points of World ...

A heartwarming Civil War tale bound to become an American holiday classic In the winter ...

Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalis...

Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes America grea...

The Statue of Liberty, one of the world’s most iconic symbols, was a gift from the ...

2012 American Library Association Notable Children's Book. 2012 YALSA-ALA Award for Excel...

Celebrated for her nonfiction books aimed at young readers, award-winning author Suzanne ...

Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a thi...

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendo...

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A numbe...

Describes the 1918 influenza (sometimes called the Spanish influenza), explaining the cau...

Lincoln's connection to black history may go much further than his role in slavery. In th...

America's Main Street Author - Jimmy Gray Narrator - Dennis Stone Time - 61:43:...

In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original ...

This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle...

Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indi...

This short but timely work gives the listener a sense of the urgency of African and world...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Encompassing everything from immig...

A spaceport in the Andes! A computer chart in Egyptian ruins! Primitive sculptures of fig...

What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China? Does Americas policy toward China ...

Punishment is a harm or deprivation, imposed by a legitimate authority, based on a legiti...

In the fall of 1787, the call went out: Each of the 13 states assembled special conventio...

On April 25th, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. Less than seven months late...

A cluster of five countriesGuatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Cost Ricaare co...

The isle of poets and scholars has known almost constant warfare for centuries. In 1920, ...

Strategically located, The Philippine Islands have been one of the keys to American polic...

With a culture dating back to at least 700 B.C., West Africa has a long and rich history....

Colombia in the 1980s became known for its role in the illegal drug trade, and for politi...

Thailand, Laos and Burma have been known as the Golden Triangle because of their historic...

A family is a social institution, a network of intimate relationships, a psychological sh...

Love and sex provide two of the primary motives of human life; the need for intimate huma...

The moral command not to lie is among the simplest of all moral imperatives. Yet its coun...

Property fundamentally marks how we as individuals are related both to other individuals ...

Drugs, a broad and vague term, usually refers to mindaltering chemicals that people inges...

For much of history, philosophers and religious thinkers have believed there are absolute...

In any social arrangement especially in a nation as large and diverse as the United Stat...

Civility, which comes to us from the Latin word for citizen, includes not only the notion...

British and American common law traditionally prohibited abortion only after quickening (...

There are three major traditions in thinking about the ethics of war: Realism sees war a...

In this groundbreaking new book, bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bur...

This is the tale of our earths disappearing fisheries and a vanishing way of life that ha...

In this blast from the past, critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf...

Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless if it m...