History: specific events and topics

"e;I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice.

An odyssey from pre-Civil War Charleston to post-World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities.

The first scholarly edition of Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824).

In 70 AD, the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus plundered the great Temple of Jerusalem, claiming for themselves a priceless hoard.

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds.

Compilation of first-person German accounts from the battle of Stalingrad.

In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde.

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people-the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s.

In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins.

The Origins of Walt Disney tells the story of the famous artist and entertainer in a fresh way, placing him in the cultural narrative of twentieth century America and the world.

Human remains and society presents a groundbreaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence.

"e;[Sledge] rightfully celebrates and affirms the southern sea's enriching past and gives readers reason to want for its wholesome and meaningful future.

Le 22 juin 1940, le caporal Léon Noguéro du 49e Régiment d'Infanterie de Bayonne est fait prisonnier par les troupes allemandes dans les Vosges, au hameau les Feignes, les armes à la main.

On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission.

An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.

This fascinating account sheds light on a little-known Nazi rebellion led by Georgian prisoners-turned-soldiers in the final days of WWII.

In 1942, John Eppler was one of two German spies inserted behind British lines in Egypt after an epic crossing of the Western Desert organised by the Hungarian explorer Count László Almásy, Operation ‘Condor’.

First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.

Finding Francis, finding family, freeing historyFrancis is found.

For the first time, leading Second World War authors from around the world have collaborated on a definitive anthology of the greatest snipers of the war.

Yorkshire CCC On This Day is fully endorsed by the club and chronicles, in diary form, the major events in their history.

How does one write a labour history of a people who have not been involved in the labour movement in significant numbers and, historically, have opposed union membership?

Exciting stories of the infantrymen who supported Germany's tanks.

La Seconde Guerre mondiale prend fin sans qu'aucune menace ne soit proférée à l'encontre de l'Espagne, dernier pays fasciste en Europe.

In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde.

The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.

This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945.

A butterfly symbolizes the beautiful, majestic life.

In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins.

The author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary brings to life the unwavering commitment of red Petrograd during some of the Russian Revolution's darkest hours.

Praise for BROADSIDES"e;Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envision with Mahan the storm-tossed and ever-watchful ships-of-the-line that kept England secure from invasion; wonder in awe at Collingwood's dedication in working himself to death after Trafalgar elevated him to primary responsibility for England's imperial safety in the Mediterranean.

The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change-and how they fought for help.

Private Dan Jones was captured by Nazi sergeants in a smoke-filled forest in Holland.

Of late, the situation of elderly women has globally attracted the attention of the civil society.

King John of England was married to two women: Isabella of Gloucester and Isabelle of Angoulême.

Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you.

Comme le déclarait en 1943 le médecin-général Adolphe Sicé, "deux grands hommes auront marqué cette ville: de Brazza, auquel elle doit son nom; de Gaulle, auquel elle doit son destin.

The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population.

Après le bombardement de leur usine en 1942 à Poissy, les jeunes employés sont réquisitionnés pour garder les voies ferrées la nuit.

Celebrate the Achievements .

Never previously published in this format, documents once stamped 'restricted' have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Library.

A pioneering history of the Carolina rice kitchen and its African influencesWhere did rice originate?

This is the latest book in the Battleground Europe series focusing on the Somme sector.

The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799–1877 was in many ways a ‘prequel’ to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction to lowly workers for the colonists.

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64 ans après la Libération, l'auteur est partie fouiller les Archives à Lille, Roubaix et Lewarde à la découverte de l'action héroïque de l'ingénieur en chef des mines de charbon du Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides.