History and Archaeology

The author of I'm Just a Teacher shares his love of teaching, his passion for learning, and his art of building relationships with students and their families.

Balkoski is in top form in this groundbreaking analysis of the other half of America's D-Day.

Faith and World explores the way contemporary Ismaili institutions articulate the ethics of the Qur'an using the language of modern liberal discourse.

One of the most overlooked subjects in the Bible are the chapters that deal with genealogies.

This biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture.

Historisches ist in der Öffentlichkeit omnipräsent und zugleich oft heftig umstritten.

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.

A TRUE story about a miraculous journey filled with antics of young men in the USAAF as well as many deadly encounters and near misses.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

The four Hanoverian King Georges may have become fixed in history as 'faintly absurd, certainly unattractive, figures' but in this colourful account of their lives and times, families and courts, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson restores a sprinkling of credit where it has been due.

''Luz no Caminho' teria sido provavelmente da mesma origem que 'A Voz do Silêncio'.

Under the united leadership of Athens and Sparta, Greece is able to repel the Persian invaders on land and at sea.

Dans cette immense zone que l'Océan Indien représente, le fait de suivre les moussons a impliqué, pendant des siècles, de naviguer le long de routes déterminées par les vents périodiques.

In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life.

The current conventional Harappan and Indo-European timelines are impossible.

This WWII history examines Nazi air force operations in Egypt and Libya with more than 100 rare wartime photographs.

If you ever had the impression that the God of the Hebrews who strikes his enemies, requires blood sacrifices, and orders destruction of cities and tribes contradicts with the image of the forgiving, loving, and kind God of the New Testament, then you need to get a ride with the author on this journey, trailing Jesus in the Old Testament.

In Echoes of Purple and Gold, Jack Keefe stacks local history like cordwood, telling forgotten tales and making odd connections that people no longer suspect.

Two people were not supposed to be together, so they snuck around to meet each other because they were so in love.

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history.

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign 1862, culminating in Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.