History

One of the largest islands in the Caribbean and also home to the Arawak and Tainos. Jama...

The Bell Witch: Robertson County, Tennessee, 1817-1828. The Bell family are terrorized by...

The Desert Fox or unnecessary risk taker?Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary statu...

Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best...

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps no...

Throughout history, there have been men of war and men of peace, but few have actually ha...

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaini...

“Little by little, the bird makes its nest.” – Old Haitian Creole Prove...

In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson's village. Most wer...

Shortly after taking office in 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the fir...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Fred Rogers, then pay attention... M...

Explore the captivating history of the Titanic.When thinking about the worst known mariti...

It’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without th...

An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrati...

On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South ...

Recent scholarship has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of t...

With the fall of the Assyrian empire in 606 B.C., Mesopotamia once more regained her nati...

Giants have existed on the Earth for most of Earth’s history. We are talking about ...

The Lost Titanic Tapes tell the story of what happened in the words of those who lived it...

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describe...

The words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring j...

Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally w...

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The...

The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most c...

Throughout the history of warfare, the practice of placing blame on innocent parties in ...

As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of t...

A recording made on November 18, 1978, at the People's Temple compound in Jonestown, Guya...

The National Center for Constitutional Studies has issued a special edition copy of The C...

"The Strenuous Life" is a speech by American President Theodore Roosevelt in which he arg...

If you wish to hear Martin Luther King Jr himself deliver his immortalized "I Have a Drea...

Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) t...

'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more ...

Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is wh...

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first deta...

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

Red Horse, a Lakota chief, recorded a detailed eyewitness account of the Battle of Little...

20th century Chicago was an ideal breeding ground for organized crime. A buzzing circuit...

“Forward, sons of the Greeks,Liberate the fatherland,Liberate your children, your w...

On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near th...

Discover the story of the greatest empire in history. Randy Jackson travels back into the...

"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews"A sh...

A detailed briefing on the Development, Construction and Employment of the Akula SSN.This...

How did the French and Indian War change the world and mold history?Most people have hear...

The American Revolutionary War has inspired bestselling books, iconic paintings, and hit ...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The sinking of the Titanic 100 yea...

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the hear...

Heralded as one of the world’s greatest scholars of scholars of late medieval relig...

Much can be said for a nation as proud and ancient as Wales. It is a nation that reaches ...

Charles Alexander Eastman (18581939), an educated and wellknown Sioux, saw both sides of ...

A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spiritIn these compelling, award-win...