Social and cultural history

I have always been a fan of history, especially military history.

Get the Summary of Howell Raines's Silent Cavalry in 20 minutes.

This is story of Tarma and Elemelech journeys from yerusalem to Ethiopia after the Jewish civil war during the time of King David and their subsequent jouneys from Ethiopia to Benin

No-hitters are rare in baseball.

When we board a modern twenty-first century aircraft, we are all confident of, hopefully, a smooth flight, and delivery, to our destination of choice.

Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941.

For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine.

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals.

1980: Scheinbar aus heiterem Himmel brachen in Zürich, Bern, Basel und in anderen Schweizer Städten Jugendkrawalle aus.

"e;Biography lovers may find this a great start in understanding the long-term impacts that individuals can have on culture, society, and history.

The tension between property and equality, as the Founders expressed it, or liberty and equality as commonly expressed today, has been a central issue for democracy since its beginning in Athens.

The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.

A historical look at the roots of management theory reveals its flaws and offers important lessons for today's leadersFor four thousand years, kings and queens ruled the known world, while management experts-in the guises of sages, clerics, and courtiers of all kinds-told them how to do it.

This book is about racial reconciliation.

Here at last is a comprehensive study that examines, via an extensive review of the literature, the psychological variables that contribute to black-on-black male adolescent homicides.

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods.

Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schonebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs.

An inspiring story of faith and family across two continentsLike millions of other Italians in the early twentieth century, Justin Catanoso's grandfather immigrated to America to escape poverty and hardship.

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots.

There must be a greater power than all of us.

Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles.

An entirely new analysis of the battle for Fox's Gap during the battle for South Mountain.

American Book Award Winner: A ';mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice.

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M.

Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present.