Historiography category: 1227 books
by Charles R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
LEYTE - The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
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World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted...
by Matthew Restall
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and...
Wars within a War
Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment...
by George Bird Grinnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The chapters in this book appeared first as part of a series of articles under the same title contributed to Forest and Stream several years ago. At the time they aroused much interest and there was a demand that they should be put into book form.
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors a panoramic view of the Mississippi River, John Cimprich's absorbing book affords readers a new vantage...
The Dunning School
Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction...
Reading Natures Book
Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philosopher and Chief Mathematician.» Reading Nature’s Book: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy...
A Nation on Trial
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
No recent work of history has generated as much interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Purporting to solve the mystery of the Nazi holocaust, Goldhagen maintains that ordinary Germans were driven by fanatical anti-Semitism to murder the Jews. An immediate national best-seller,...
by G Kitson Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Originally published in 1967, this book analyses the method by which historical evidence is built up and compares the nature of historical proof with that of other disciplines such as the law and natural sciences. It examines an extraordinary series of forgeries and distortions from the False Decretals...
The Purpose of the Past
Reflections on the Uses of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
An erudite scholar and an elegant writer, Gordon S. Wood has won both numerous awards and a broad readership since the 1969 publication of his widely acclaimed The Creation of the American Republic. With The Purpose of the Past, Wood has essentially created a history of American history, assessing...
Black History Handbook
This Precise Guide Will Let You Learn The Black History Facts, Black Power Movement, Accurate Harriet Tubman Facts, Thurgood Marshall Information, The Harlem Renaissance History And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
From 1955 to 1965 there was a war right in the middle of America. No, it wasn’t a war like World War II or the Revolutionary War. It was a war for the heart and soul of this country to determine once and for all if America was really going to be a land of equal opportunity for all. ...
Altered Pasts
Counterfactuals in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff...
The Indonesian Genocide of 1965
Causes, Dynamics and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of...
Why France?
American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries,...