General and world history

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time.

We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed.

Since its first publication in 2007, John H.

When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied.

What Is the History of Emotions?

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success.

Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.

Timed to coincide with the release of Walter Isaacson's latest biography on the famous painter and inventor, as well as the latest thriller in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code series, this book includes 101 in-depth facts about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.

The celebrated poet behind such classics as "e;The Red Wheelbarrow"e; and "e;This Is Just to Say"e; presents a collection of essays about North American history.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis.

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, one of America's most honored historianswinner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedomthat reminds us of the enduring principles at the heart of the American experience.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a ';vivid, compelling, and unputdownablebiography' (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamiltontrailblazing philanthropist, devoted wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's founding story.

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY ';Full oflively insights and lucid prose' (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United Statesfrom before the arrival of Columbus to the present daywritten by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte der Großherzöge von Hessen, deren Herrschaft die politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Entwicklungen Deutschlands über Jahrhunderte hinweg prägte.

After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England.

A Congressional Medal of Honor AccountExtraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy's Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major L Vn M, who fought by his side.

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.

The First Counterspyis the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web.

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad.

From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese.

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull.

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet.

On August 23, 1877, a scout named Jack Bean watched 600 Nez Perce Indians head into the new Yellowstone National Park.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

In this captivating Western novel, a wagon train scout runs afoul of a band of Apaches, who are determined to hunt him down, no matter the cost.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

A fond recollection of the West's one-room school houses, this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis.

Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birminghams much-loved Real Lace.

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation.

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862.

In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Comanches in tales nearly too tall to be true.

A soldier's eye view of Vietnam's fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversaryKhe Sanh's Hill Fights of 1967as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day accountwere carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark.

George S.

Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade.

The story of the legendary producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, who made superstars of the 1970's that have stood the test of time: KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament-Funkadelic.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history.

After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England.

United Airlines Flight 93, which took off fromNewarkAirportthe morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but theres so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax.

Colorado Territory in 1864 wasnt merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union.