At the end of World War II, as Allied forces uncovered the full horror of Nazi atrocities, the United States government made a calculated decision: recruit the scientists who had built Hitler's war machine.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Enthullungen des sogenannten Church Committee, eines US-Senatsausschusses, der in den 1970er Jahren die verdeckten Operationen der CIA, des FBI und der NSA untersuchte.
Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die Geschichte von MKUltra - dem geheimen CIA-Programm, das zwischen 1953 und 1973 Tausende Menschen ohne ihr Wissen zu Versuchspersonen machte.
On a quiet Sunday evening in 1938, millions of Americans tuned their radios to a seemingly standard musical broadcast, only to be interrupted by horrifying news bulletins.
While history books are filled with tales of brutal territorial conquests, few remember the bizarre international crisis sparked entirely by the felling of pine trees.
How did the shooting of a single, wandering pig on a remote island almost ignite a massive, catastrophic war between the United States and the British Empire?
During the First World War, hundreds of young women were hired to paint glowing, luminescent dials on military watches using newly discovered radium paint.
Between 1953 and 1973, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted one of the most extensive and ethically compromised research programs in American history.
Der Chicagoer Grobrand von 1871 war eine der verheerendsten Katastrophen der amerikanischen Stadtgeschichte und hinterlie eine Spur aus Asche, Zerstorung - und bemerkenswertem Uberlebenswillen.
When Spanish expeditions crossed the Atlantic at the dawn of the 16th century, they set in motion one of the most dramatic and far-reaching transformations in world history.
At the dawn of the 19th century, two men-Meriwether Lewis and William Clark-were tasked with uncovering the mysteries of a vast and unfamiliar continent.
Before skyscrapers pierced the skyline and millions of people flooded its streets, New York began as a rugged, unruly settlement where cultures collided, fortunes were made overnight, and danger lurked in every alleyway.
Before the railroad, before the barbed-wire fence, and before the frontier fully closed, there existed a brief but transformative period dominated by a profession both revered and reviled: the buffalo hunter.
Conexiones libreras propone una mirada a la historia de los intercambios culturales en America Latina que se aleja de la nomenclatura letrada para privilegiar a las personas y a los lugares que hicieron materialmente posible la comunicacion intelectual a nivel continental (bibliotecas y librerias, libreros y tipografos, pioneras casas editoriales y consules).
Un documental que ilumina las redes de comunicacion y colaboracion entre dos destacados eruditos del siglo XIX: el historiador y bibliografo mexicano Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta y el abogado y bibliografo franco-estadounidense Henry Harrisse.
"e;The Silver Squeeze - How two oil billionaires tried to buy all the silver in the world"e; tells the incredible story of Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt.
The traditional narrative of American history begins with European colonists arriving to find a vast, untamed wilderness sparsely populated by nomadic tribes.
Die Kolonisierung Amerikas war kein friedlicher Aufbau neuer Gesellschaften - sie beruhte auf systematischer Enteignung, Versklavung und Vernichtung bestehender Zivilisationen.
