History category: 194783 books
History Skills
A Student's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Degree-level history is characterized not only by knowledge and understanding of the human past, but by a battery of skills and qualities which are as directly applicable to employment as to professional postgraduate training or academic research. History Skills gives frank and practical help to students...
The 400 Silent Years
From Malachi to Matthew (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Fully illustrated. Includes all of the drawings from the original edition. What is the history between the Old and New Testaments? Most people are not even aware there is such a gap. But there is. A 400 year gap. When the Old Testament leaves off the Jews have just returned back from Babylonian captivity...
Shakespeare's Restless World
Portrait of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus
We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
Captured By History
One Man's Vision Of Our Tumultuous Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to...
by Julia Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
"101 American History Fun Facts" includes 101 fun facts from American history. Amuse your family, impress your co-workers - always have a fun fact or two to share!
"101 American History Fun Facts" was published for the website American History Fun Facts. This ebook has many...
Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson
A Diary, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with...
True South
Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“[TRUE SOUTH] does several things at once. On one level, it’s a biography . . . On another, it’s a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement . . . A warm and intelligent book.”—The New York Times
“No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps...
Long Road to Hard Truth
The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading...
Play Ball!
The Story of Little League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Bestselling history of Little League Baseball and the World Series now available on KINDLE. The eBook is updated through 2013! Includes a new chapter on John Grisham's movie, "Mickey," the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on the South Lawn, Pitch Counts and Arm Injuries, Child Protection...
Warlords of Ancient Mexico
How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico.
More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life...
by Daniel J. Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
From Communes to the Clintons
Why does Hillary Clinton crusade for government-provided health care for every American, for the redistribution of wealth, and for child rearing to become a collective obligation? Why does Al Gore say that it’s okay to “over-represent” the dangers of global...
by Kat Smutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the key city of Leningrad on 22 September 1941, he could...
by Jemma J. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political...