History category: 194783 books
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage
Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The 'texts' associated with this town's public history_tourist brochures, promotional narratives, historic homes, memorials, and monuments_are...
by Richard Kurin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
This is a comprehensive and unique history of the Minuteman ICBM program and related Cold War issues, focusing on missile silos in South Dakota. The history of the Cold War, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s, describes how nuclear systems developed, and the political climate and foreign policy decisions...
Food History Almanac
Over 1,300 Years of World Culinary History, Culture, and Social Influence
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Food History Almanac covers 365 days of the year, with information and anecdotes relating to food history from around the world from medieval times to the present. The daily entries include such topics as celebrations; significant food-related moments in history from the fields of science and...
Recording History
The British Record Industry, 1888 – 1931
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
In Recording History, Peter Martlanduses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, itsurveys the commercial and business activities...
Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals)
Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In Rethinking German History, first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal attention to objective social structures and subjective values and experiences. If German history has been seen as an exception to the ‘normal’ development...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Moment of Battle
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,...
A History of Modern Germany
1871 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nineteenth-century imperial Germany, through political division and reunification, and into the present day.
Beginning in the early 1870s and covering...
Arizona
A History, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E. Sheridan's thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona has become a standard in the field. Now, just in time for Arizona's centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already...
A Brief History of History
Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
What Daniel Boorstin did for science in The Discoverers, Timothy Ferris for cosmology in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and Robert Heilbroner for economics in The Worldly Philosophers, Colin Wells now does for history in A Brief History of History. The most accessible, concise, and clear-sighted biography...
by James Miller Guinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little to preserve their history. In narrating the story of California, the author has endeavored to deal justly with the different eras and episodes of its history;...
by Julia Kaziewicz, Sarah Park, Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Turn Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Renaissance World into a high-school history course.
Susan Wise Bauer’s narrative world history series is widely used in advanced high school history classes, as well as by home educating parents. The Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use by...