Journalist and author Ted Reinstein has reported all around New England for 25 years, telling the colorful stories of this historic yet ever-changing corner of America.
Journalist and author Ted Reinstein has reported all around New England for 25 years, telling the colorful stories of this historic yet ever-changing corner of America.
In the summer of 66 CE, a young Temple official in Jerusalem persuaded the priests at the altar to stop performing a sacrifice on behalf of the Roman Emperor.
In Battle of the Big Hole, noted historian Aubrey Haines has compiled the many written and first-person accounts of this historic moment in the Indian Wars into a complete and exhaustive history of the 1877 battle.
In Battle of the Big Hole, noted historian Aubrey Haines has compiled the many written and first-person accounts of this historic moment in the Indian Wars into a complete and exhaustive history of the 1877 battle.
'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday TimesA Times Best Paperback of 2025'For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos' 'History Books of the Year', The Times'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David KynastonWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era.
The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Children of Ash and Elm and award-winning expert on the Vikings brings us even closer to their worldWho do we think of when we think about the Vikings?
In 1760 the world was still lit by fire and muscle, and had been, in its essentials, for thousands of years — poor, slow, dark, and bounded by the annual gift of the sun.
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
'Profound and timely' Tony Juniper'A tour de force' Lorna GibbA panoramic history of life, revealing the forces that have shaped our world and could shape it againLife evolved in two phases.
This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde.
The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics.
From humble beginnings at Fairlie, Ayrshire, in the early years of the nineteenth century, William Fife and Son grew to become one of Britain's premier yacht-building yards, attracting commissions from as far afield as America, Canada and America.
Democracy in Tanzania examines one of Africa's most important contemporary governance challenges: the struggle between institutional power and democratic accountability.
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Letzte Worte binden seltener die Person, die damit ihren "letzten" Willen erklärt, sondern vor allem diejenigen, denen eine letztwillige Verfügung gilt.
Die Flüchtlingsströme aus dem Nahen Osten rufen in Erinnerung, dass es eine solche Erscheinung auch in der deutschen Geschichte am Ende und nach Beendigung des Zweiten Weltkriegs gegeben hat.
50 Jahre Forschung über Hochschulen im Osten Deutschlands: 1964 war das Institut für Hochschulpolitik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gegründet worden.
