History: specific events and topics

Michele Jordan knows her food and she knows how to write about it.

Some single, simple things, like mustard, have a wealth of history and a path of stories, usually known only to a few.

Stefan Fatsis sends his stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else?

Mary Barton is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class.

World War II not only marked the end of a terrifying time in Europe, but also the dawning of many technological breakthroughs.

When Buffalo Ran tells the story of a young, mid nineteenth century Plains Indian, named Wikis.

It was the war that changed everything, and yet its been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia.

One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.

The complete guide for beginner and intermediate distillers.

Swedish television personality and food historian Edward Blom is a cook with a big personality and a big passion.

Every time you chew a stick of Juicy Fruit, eat a hamburger, slip on a nylon, plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a TV, withdraw money from an ATM, lick an ice-cream cone, switch on a computer, ride an escalator, play a DVR, watch a movie about dinosaurs, or pop a tranquilizer, you're doing something that originated at a world's fair or trade expo.

Cocktails at Dinner is equal parts cookbook and bar book.

Classy ladies and dapper gents have their favorite vintage cocktail go-to, and now you can as well!

A groundbreaking work on the psychodynamics of bigotry and anti-Semitism.

On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke.

The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band.

Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of formsnoncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare.

Whether their children have asked them to recapture treasured moments, stories, and traditions, or simply to record valuable family information, many seniors are now sitting down to write about their lives.

The classic account of one mans journey into the wild American frontier.

The author respectfully submits it as his firm and immovable conviction, that the United States of America, in the years to come, will govern the entire Western Hemisphere.

Many home cooksand professionals, as wellswear by the tried-and-true implements theyve used for years: the Foley Food Mill that works like a charm every time; the manually operated juicer thats a tradition of family breakfasts; the cast iron skillet thats been handed down through the generations.

Ranging from the simple to the sumptuous, here are over 200 recipes for modern Americans inspired by dishes and beverages the authors discovered in cookbooks, family journals, and notebooks of 150 to 250 years ago.

Based in part on Davy Crocketts own writings, this is the true story about one of Americas most iconic historical figures.

Anything you can mix and pour into a glass is now termed a cocktail, but those drinks usually pale in comparison with the truly classic cocktails.

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Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant.

Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out.

A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Eu-rope.

The New York Times Bestseller by the Author of A Man Called IntrepidIdeal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar worksShares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorWritten by William Stevenson, the only person whom she trusted to write her biographyShe was stunning.

Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland.

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921.

Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend.

More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.

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The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals.

What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939?

A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later.

In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.

This is a facsimile reprint of the very first Boy Scouts Handbook, complete with the wonderful vintage advertisements that accompanied the original 1911 edition, now in full color.

First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J.

First written in 1890, The Etiquette of Freemasonry is a timeless window into the mysterious traditions and practices of one of historys most intriguing secret societies.

The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler.

First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author S.

In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty.

The New York Mets fan is an Amazin creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Princes Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team.

Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Cronos es la encarnación del tiempo.

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanwars that seem as far from Americans' understanding as they are distant from our shores.

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap.