History

A Treasure Trove of Intrigue, Drama & PassionAncient Mythology is the foundation of The W...

My previous books on ancient civilizations, megaliths, strange objects out of time, Atlan...

George washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Foun...

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic s...

When Thom Hartmann bought an old farmhouse in Vermont, he found a complete twenty-volume ...

After five years culling through Henry Ford's lifetime collection of personal notes and d...

Where are we on the human journey?  What monumental challenges are facing us as a hu...

Sister Lucy created Maher, a model refuge for abused women and children in India. At Mahe...

We must continue the journey in the face of burn-out and other political challenges. The ...

Here scholar, theologian, and teacher Father Matthew Fox explores the writings and wisdom...

For millennia the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads fo...

Activist and author Paul Loeb has been at the hub of social change for more than three de...

During the Civil War, Union supporters in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springf...

In June 1722, Ashton was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia....

This piece, which appeared in Outside magazine in 1995 and was originally recorded for "R...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestors include J...

This unique sound history of Everest was produced to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary ...

Hand-sled Riley is being pursued by Granden, a wanted man. Granden is wanted on the Ameri...

A solemn emotional day for John Mortonson's friends and family. Who would have thought t...

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

Fort Ticonderoga was the key to the North American continent in the mid to late 18th Cent...

New Narration. Fewer people than you may think have read or even heard of the Gettysburg ...

John Adams was the leading political figure from New England during the American Revoluti...

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 squ...

Learn about religion and America, from the 17th century through today, with 139 things to...

Learn from four remarkable professors in this set of One Day University presentations on ...

Learn from four remarkable professors in a set of One Day University presentations on the...

Learn from award winning professors in this set of five talks originally delivered at One...

Listen to key founding documents, plus a look at significant events that took place betwe...

Here we explore the Native American influence on the founding of the United States and ho...

Leadership is a quality in short supply during a time in history when we need it the most...

How are the successes and failures of the fledgling South African democracy relevant to a...

Flower Power… The Beatles… Thunderbirds… The Space Race… Brea...

Roobarb and Custard… Lycra… Space Hoppers… Kermit and Miss Piggy&hel...

More than 200 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, governments around ...

Before Bernard Bailyn published The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution in 196...

The bizarre story of Martin Guerre—a peasant who disappears from a small village in...

In his 1966 book The Night Battles, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg detailed the lives o...

English historian Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642&nda...

Examining 1,200 years of history from the foundation of Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Em...

Born in 1945, Paul Kennedy grew up in England, watching the new political realities of th...

In the 1960s, British historian Jonathan Riley-Smith first began studying the knightly or...

Excited by the possibilities hinted at by the major scientific breakthroughs of the day, ...

First available in 1689, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government is considered one...

In Ireland of 453 A.D. who could have imagined that a female slave would be the first to ...

We do not have to join the ranks of despair in these challenging times. We have a choice....

Kaufman grew up in the Bronx, the Jewish son of a Holocaust survivor. He recounts a most ...

This dialogue with the daughters of Alan Watts takes a deep dive into the colorful and co...

When Irving’s father signed on as an agricultural missionary in Haiti, she was tran...

There are some whose major influence was the ‘60s: who protested the Vietnam war, u...