History and Archaeology

He liberated six nations.

They were starving.

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.

Der Atomschutzbunker erzählt die Geschichte der Schweiz: von einbetoniertem Wissen, Macht und einem Raum, der vom Kalten Krieg bis heute nachhallt.

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.

On the morning of 22 September 1914, just six weeks into the First World War, three Royal Navy armoured cruisers were sunk by a German U-boat in the southern North Sea.

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts.

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.

____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA S YDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment .

Christianity Today Book of the Year award of MeritWe generally assume that those sitting around us in church share our beliefs.

What did it feel like to be human before all of this?

Before he was President, before the atomic bomb, before the Berlin Airlift and the Truman Doctrine, and before the defining crises of the American century, Harry S.

Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Palmetto state!

Whether youre a born-and-raised Floridian, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Florida Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as David Grimes and Tom Becnel take you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Sunshine State.

A fascinating journey through the Lone Star States unruly pastwith maps, photos, and moreTexas rightfully claims a celebrated place in the wildest West of both myth and realitywhich makes it truly stranger than fiction that The Crime Buffs Guide to Outlaw Texas is the first-ever travel guide to the many sites related to the Lone Star States renowned rambunctious past, complete with GPS coordinates that put you at the scene of the action.

The definitive collection of Washington's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Washington residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Before textbooks reduced American history to dates and names, Jacob Abbott told it as a living story.

On the night of September 21, 1776, New York City erupted in flames.

Before textbooks reduced American history to dates and names, Jacob Abbott told it as a living story.

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.

A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.

By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, China was already under siege.

Valrie Andr is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century.

By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, China was already under siege.

Family trees are best viewed on a tablet.

James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

Every book published in the modern world carries within its identity a sequence of digits beginning with 978.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours.

From the American Civil War to the Meiji Restoration, one ironclad warship shaped the fate of three nations across four decades of global conflict.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'Brilliant .

This book provides a detailed account of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one-and-a-half centuries.

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!

100% of author royalties are being donated to the Tunnel to Towers FoundationHelicopters loom large in how we picture the Vietnam War.

A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the how to books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students.

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.

The termination of the war and the fate of the Union hung in the balance in May of 1864 as Robert E.

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict.

The tumultuous North Carolina Senate primaries of 1950 are still viewed as the most bitter chapter in the states modern political history.

Eightytwo percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend Hitler Youth or one of its affiliates by the time membership became fully compulsory in 1939.

The most dangerous substance ever sold as a health tonic glows faintly blue in the dark.

Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemys House Divided is Charles de Gaulles analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I.

A radical revisionand worker's-eye viewof everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes.

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Energy Systems 2 presents a comprehensive exploration of how intelligent technologies are transforming modern energy infrastructures toward a more sustainable and efficient future.

January 20 to March 14, 2025: fifty-four days that arrived faster than anyone could hold them.

As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common.

A Dark, Unflinching ThrillerShadows of Your Past is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the legacies we inherit, blending psychological tension with mystical intrigue.