History books

Patricia Glasswell remembers her childhood, as World War II begins, and the resilience (and laughter) that comes...  Read More >>

Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly...  Read More >>

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

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In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades...  Read More >>

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box...  Read More >>

The World in Flames is a bottom-up history of the Seven Years’ War, exploring this epochal conflict from the perspective...  Read More >>

How the United States’ confrontation with North African raiders established its legitimacy on the world stage For...  Read More >>

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Illuminating a powerful yet underappreciated force in the American peace and women's movements On November 1,...  Read More >>

This timely examination of early Black Christian women and their writing reminds us of the importance of retrieving...  Read More >>

Beth Robinson examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on...  Read More >>

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson...  Read More >>

K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the...  Read More >>

Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the...  Read More >>

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With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of...  Read More >>

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This deeply personal history traces the experiences of two men who fought for the German Army on the Eastern Front...  Read More >>

Retro Australia is a fantastic visual throw-back to 1950 s through to the 1970 s era with a collectionof rare and...  Read More >>

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