Historical Study & Educational Resources

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

The Popular Rock Singer Delivers Behind-the-scenes Stories From His Life In Music, From His Solo Career To His Decade-long Tenure As Lead Singer Of Van Hale...

Two Award-winning Political Scientists Provide The Psychological Key To America's Deadlocked Politics, Showing That We Are Divided Not By Ideologies But Som...

The First Narrative History Of Gambling, Spanning The Stone Age To The Internet Era, Examining How It Evolved With ? And Influenced ? Human Civilization -- ...

On The Night Of September 6, 2011, Terror Called At The Amish Home Of The Millers. Answering A Late-night Knock From What Appeared To Be An Amish Neighbor, ...

one Hundred Twenty Pages Of Illustrations, Accompanied By Descriptive Captions, Depict One-piece Strapless Bathing Suits And Dresses With Plunging Necklin...

Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and ...

indispensable For Every Home, Library, And Office, the Knowledge Book Distills Thousands Of Years Of Humankind's Most Significant Ideas And Achievements.....

In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This...

An Award-winning Author Reconsiders The Role Of Historians In Political Debate. For Generations, British Thinkers Told The History Of An Empire Whose Story ...

the Little Immigrants Is A Tale Of Compassion And Courage And A Vivid Account Of A Deep And Moving Part Of Canadian Heritage. In The Early Years After Confe...

Part of the Reacting to the Past series, The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in the human ...

To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful serv...

The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with Custer at his "last stand" against the Sioux.The Honolulu bureau chief who looked up from his ...

A Superlative Study Of The Roots Of The Modern Fashion ShowCategories: HistoryWorld

For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a ...

Overview: Most Of Us Take For Granted The Features Of Our Modern Society, From Air Travel And Telecommunications To Literacy And Obesity. Yet For Nearly All...

Sharon Wall ; Foreword By Graeme Wynn. Include Bibliographical References (p. 334-354) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesC...

An account of upper class French society through the centuries showing how its setting - the chateaux and manoirs of the French countryside evolved in conce...

A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers.Canadian hockey is approaching a state of crisis. It's become more ...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate thirty years of...

Idenifies Key Individuals, Events, Places, Organizations, Movements, Political Parties, And Battles. Consultant Editor, Bruce P. Lenman ; Editor, Hilary Mar...

Telfer, GeordieCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources

Now completely revised and updated, this new edition of the essential consumer guide to wine features all the most current information for today’s wine la...

Although Most Of Us Think Of History--and Learn It--as A Conglomeration Of Facts, Dates, And Key Figures, For Professional Historians It Is A Way Of Knowing...

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sen...

Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timele...

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the...

A Workbook That Examines World History On A Middle School Level. Organized By Key Concepts, The Text Includes Mnemonic Devices, Definitions, Timelines And D...

The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Topics: Organization of Living Things & Chemistry of Life, Str...

Is It Possible To Reach Back In Time And Solve An Unsolved Murder, More Than 170 Years After It Was Committed? Just After Midnight On April 21, 1842, John M...

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussei...

My Secret SisterCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources

why Do Some Allegations Of Scholarly Misconduct And Error Become Large Media Spectacles And Result In Sanction Against The Offending Writer, While Others R...

Jack Holland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-289) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Women's StudiesFeminist Theory

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That acc...

Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with an irresistible addition to his bestselling PostSecret series. For The Secret Lives of Men and Women, Warre...

An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have ...

The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extrao...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

George W. Bush. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsCommentary & Opinion

Every Teacher, Every Student Of History, Every Citizen Should Read This Book. It Is Both A Refreshing Antidote To What Has Passed For History In Our Educati...

On The Eve Of Canada's Sesquicentennial Celebrations Comes A Richly Rewarding New Book From Acclaimed Historian Charlotte Gray About What It Means To Be Can...

With selections drawn from both constitutional and cultural history, this book invites students to examine evidence as historians do. Documents are arranged...

A new and major contribution to the field, Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the ei...

Traces The History Of The Deaf Through The Eyes Of Laurent Clerc, A Deaf Frenchman Who Was The Intellectual Leader Of The Deaf Community In France, Then In ...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It AgainCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPublic Af...